Meretto - Street Talking

Meretto have a difficult battle ahead of them. With the lad-rock market currently saturated by the likes of The Enemy, Reverend and the Makers, Pigeon Detectives, and with the death rattles of Hard-Fi and The Ordinary Boys still ringing in many an ear, it’s no easy feat to carve out a space for something new. Which is a shame, considering that Meretto have knocked out some pretty deft indie-rock anthems. A Method of Urban Survival has ‘terrace-chant’ written all over it, and tracks like Devotion have enough poppy potential to make Radio 1 guitar stalwarts like The View looking worriedly over their shoulders. Better still are the eccentricities; respects paid to the less typical lad-rock luminaries, like Morrissey (Back to Me) and even Duran Duran (A Kiss), implying that Meretto can do more than indie-by-numbers. So long as there’s space left in the mainstream, then success surely awaits.