The Ordinary Boys - I Luv U

Even putting to one side any prior knowledge of The Ordinary Boys' empty, grotesque populism; the knuckle-dragging ska nightmare that is 'Boys Will be Boys', the slow motion car crash that was their lead singer's Darwinian stumble from indie also-ran to Big Bruva Sleb – this is still one of the worst things these ears have ever heard. Here the hapless Preston has the gall to sing about the ubiquity of cliché - as though that's an excuse to write what is perhaps the single most musically flaccid slice of regurgitated pop drivel imaginable. Like a puppy licking up its own vomit – this is hard to stomach. [Jay Shukla]