Irish chart-toppers, but they’re yet to win over the Jukebox…

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Katherine St Asaph: Dig if you will a picture, of you and I engaged in a hoedown. Extra point because it piqued me to revisit the Heathers debut.
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Micha Cavaseno: Admirable that they can be so nimble and fleet-footed, despite trying to talk about such calamity. Unfortunately, this pluckiness and spartan arrangement makes great framework, but feels just too slight to dwell within.
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Josh Langhoff: The worst detail of this tousle-haired “Redneck Crazy” rewrite — apart from the affected winsomeness, the lads’ inability to write an interesting verse, the melody that toggles obsessively around the 5th and 3rd of the scale (a brief YouTube dive suggests this is their “thing”?), and the worrying possibility of them blowing up in the States on the strength of post-Once AAA radio — comes after the first couplet, when Ryan Hennessy’s nothing line “Am I right or am I wrong” stretches into the distance, echoing “I wrong, I wrong, I wrong” along with some jerk keyboard. Convinced they’ve written a song, but unable to rhyme the word “wrong,” the Pix submit their text to whichever naff musical effects they can dig up in the studio, because that’s what pop songs do or something. So call “Addicted to You” the I Wrong: an inexhaustible Book of Changes on how not to do this.
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Eleanor Graham: Of course, there’s enough room in the market and our hearts for more than one Irish in-my-feelings-indie-pop-rock artist. But “Sex” by Eden still sounds like being young and accidentally a bit in l*ve and stumbling blindly through a chaotic universe, and it takes more to capture that feeling than a fun-edgy line about being “borderline obsessed with you!” And romance takes more than an acoustic guitar loop and faintly strained male vocal.
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Ian Mathers: “I’m borderline obsessed with you,” “I’m surviving on you, only you,” and of course the title, all in a voice that makes me feel like I was too tough on the guy from Starsailor. The “sincerity” here feels so weaponized that it makes my skin crawl. The feeling that the narrator is one minor spat away from busting out the misogynistic abuse practically comes off the song in waves.
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Scott Mildenhall: Sounding like Kodaline, but even duller — it’s Toe The Line. There is nothing terrible about this song; Picture This display a focused sense of melody, but unfortunately it’s in much the same way as Scouting For Girls’. And at least they were peppy! Anodyne in all respects, with ten-a-penny, marshmallow-chewing voices at its heart, “Addicted to You” isn’t even inspiring enough for this sentence to be rounded out properly.
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Alfred Soto: Sincere strum-alongs like “Addicted to You” attract comments of the it-sounds-nothing-like-addiction ilk, ignoring why they attract the same listeners who stream and download Ed Sheeran’s mean-spirited hook monsters. The lack of surprise and imagination is the point of a record like “Addicted to You.” But I’m still in charge.
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