Cazals - Somebody, Somewhere

describe themselves as, to quote their website, ‘one of the most forward thinking British guitar bands in Britain today’. Proof reading failures aside, there is no evidence whatsoever, at least judging by this single, that Cazals are anything more than derivative, the kind of band that can be seen playing support slots every night up and down the country. Perhaps they think that their inclusion of a synth at various points of this track makes them forward thinking - lads, I have two words for you. The. Automatic. And that’s not meant in a positive way either.

It’s a shame that frontman Phil plies his trade with these lot, his vocal performance the only highlight on show here. He crows that ‘somewhere out there, there’s someone who cares’, ambling blindly across the well-trodden ground of lyrics about being a ‘hopeless romantic’, but simultaneously making the point that there are people out there keeping bands like these in supplies of bottled Carling on their rider. The band makes much of being signed to Kitsuné given its proud heritage, but on the basis of this Cazals will be one of the names they won’t be proud to mention in the same breath as Foals and Crystal Castles. That is, of course, as is all too often depressingly inevitable, average bands like this make it big.