Fightstar - aka The Band Which Unforgivably Broke Up Busted When That Chap With The Dennis Healey Eyebrows Started Taking Himself A Bit Too Seriously - launch themselves hotly onto the scene with this, their debut album, a disc about as far removed from Busted as it's possible to be without them all actually burning their guitars and starting out again as a synth-pop outfit. And it's alright, although let down by one or two fundamental flaws.

There's no doubting the musicianship on display here. The largely instrumental opening track To Sleep, a lovely but slightly gloomy short Muse-style piano and guitar number, is smashed to bits by Grand Unification Pt 1, a Deftones-esque stormer with gentle and melancholy harmonies nailed to fast, frenzied, crisp rock riffing. There's nothing here which is as groundbreaking and alarming as the boys would clearly like, because they're drawing on some influences which have already informed changes in career directions of bands like Lostprophets, but that's not to say that these songs are bad or even uninspired. Sleep Well Tonight, Build An Army and the likes are capable quiet bit/loud bit/quiet bit emo anthems and while they won't win any awards (in a fair world, in which there are no teenagers to vote for Eyebrow Boy on the basis of looks and coolness alone) they're enjoyable enough. The real problem lies with Charlie's voice - it's not cut out for this kind of music. Busted's cheeky pop punk suited him perfectly but this rawk screaming fails to cut the mustard. Their management could take a cue from us and demote him to photogenic tambourine player and draft in Chris Cornell to ghost-sing some of the tracks, and then we'd have a real corker on our hands.

As it is, Grand Unification fails to impress us all that much. Sorry, kids.