Kevin Drew - Safety Bricks

It's not easy to say why Kevin Drew's Spirit If... is not the new Broken Social Scene album we've all been hoping for: packed with charming and catchy songs like Safety Bricks, it lacks only the focus to keep it a concise, fatless full-length. Safety Bricks is one of the happy-clappy songs, the one where he coos "woo-oo, woo-oo, woo-oo" like a courting bird of paradise, over a thrusting, shuffling rhythm, and in between romantic promises. Like the best pop, it's fleetingly lovely and entirely disposable in equal measures. [Ally Brown]