Rebuilt by Humans

The best three-piece, punk-pop-addicted trio to come bursting out of Northern Ireland since Ash.

Like their local predecessors, they wrote the majority of this debut album while still in school, but where Ash majored in adrenalin-pop, Cinema Club favour the kind of quirky, angular art-rock more normally made by Geordies.

Thus I Can Talk evokes the Futureheads at their most knotty and determinedly contrary, while the wordy Eat That Up, It’s Good For You is a frantically jittery construction that Maxïmo Park would have been rightly proud of.

Vocalist Alex Trimble swallows his words and surfs the waves of herky-jerky, absurdist guitar like David Byrne at his most faux-naïve on Do You Want It All and single and standout track Undercover Martyn. It may not be original, but it’s great fun.

Album Review by Ian Gittins