Mystery Jets - Half in Love With Elizabeth

Somewhere along the line The Mystery Jets swapped pots and pans for keytars and got, y’know, a bit famous. They’ve even got flippin’ Kate Nash on the B-Side. With ‘Half In Love With Elizabeth’ the popular disco direction of ‘Two Doors Down’ is still arse shakingly evident but sadly misses the previous single’s vital punch.

Dad makes a comeback as lyricist ‐ perhaps penning the best bit of this one, the stabbing call of ‘He’s Half in Love With Elizabeth/ And Half in Love With You,’ but the chanting and bellowing that bounds either side of the lacklustre verse comes across as the dithering of a bunch of loutish lads rather than the ingenuity of a ramshackle rainbow posse that we know The Mystery Jets can be.

The musical equivalent of shimmying your way successfully onto the floor only to find that the lights have just been turned on, we’re only half in like with this one. Shame.