The Whip - X Marks Destination

After two years of successful single releases, Machester's The Whip have finally tallied up enough new tunes for their first full-length and they sound just as good on your stereo as they do on the dancefloor. Soon to be re-released single Trash has a chorus so undeniably cool it somehow justifies the prolonged build-ups and repetitions that stretch it out to over six minutes, and last year's Divebomb is a bodybuilding powerhouse of a synth-fest that could easily have been one of the better tracks on Daft Punk's Human After All. Some new material suffers by comparison to these singles though: both Save My Soul and finisher Dubsex are safe, mediocre pop songs sexed up by the aforementioned synth-smithery. Overall, it's an enjoyable, at times relishable case of great killer, pretty good filler. [Shaun Love]