Rotary Ten - These Are Our Hands

This debut album from Sheffield four-piece Rotary Ten bounces out of your stereo like Maximo Park, but on an off day. Jerky angular guitar lines twist and contort themselves around the musings of front man James Trafford. Somewhere between Morrisey and Jarvis Cocker, Trafford’s introspective but vague lyrics are the centre piece here. Which is a problem when they offer little insight into anything much really. “Time is not a line and I am not a rock,” he informs unintelligibly on the song of the same name. Meanwhile I Fear The Field sees the singer make rather bizarre connections between the angst of being young with being a goalkeeper. Confused? You soon will be. Musically the album ticks along at a decent pace with plenty of fairly interesting variations on the now standard British indie riffs, but in all the album is lightweight. [Neal Parsons]