My Tiny Robots - Some of My Best Ideas EP

On the ornately designed sleeve to this DIY three-track EP there is a credit to the 'Grampian Male Voice Choir' for backing vocals on opening track Kenny Rogers (scent of a woman). Credit where credit's due, but if this ain't a wind-up it's kinda funny, considering the only backing vocals on said track are constant, Futureheads-style 'ooh-aahs'. Surely you don't need a choir for that. But that's the sound of hairs splitting, as Edinburgh-based band My Tiny Robots have a simple yet likeable guitar-pop sound that deserves to be heard. Like Kaiser Chiefs without the exaggeration, My Tiny Robots are clearly a band who grew up in the Britpop generation. Ghosts is nine parts Supergrass to one part Strokes, while Why do I Always have to Be the Monster?, with its chiming guitars and Dylan Childs' elastic vocals, is possibly the song to make their name. [Nick Mitchell]