Does It Offend You, Yeah?: You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into

If you ever been working at an industrial plant whilst trying to watch an episode of Family Fortunes on your sadly corrupted Sky+ box, then prepare to relive those glorious memories.

When reading about Does It Offend You, Yeah? you will generally come across two main strains of conversation, firstly there is the discussion about the band's moniker, and secondly, there will be a Klaxons reference. We're gonna defy convention and at least avoid one of them.

Does It Offend You, Yeah? walk a similar path to The Whip, Crystal Castles and Death From Above 1979. They concern themselves not with deep introspection, but with filling those floors. There's plenty of time to be crying in the dark corner, but there's only one Friday night.

"With A Heavy Heart" alone has the power to draw you to your feet and instil in you the urge to synchronise your light switch activation with a groove so big you could build a national park around it. Added to that is the perfect 'dam holding back the torrents' style bridge which is finally decimated by the raw power of the refrain.

We'll admit, as far as band names go, it is rather unwieldy, but what would you rather? "The Offenders"? "Affirmative Aggrievement"? Beside, there are far worse out there, although we'll admit we very much like one of these, and quite possibly made one up as well.

• This Bike is a Pipe Bomb
• Panic at the Disco
• Success Will Write Apocalypse Across The Sky
• Alas, Alak, Alaska!
• Cheerio Bowl Massacre
• The Cathode Terror Secretion
• Seal Cub Clubbing Club

"Dawn of the Dead" and "Epic Last Song" switch the console to more of a beat driven indie-fare, they excel as easily at this as they do with the spastic dance-floor anthems. Morgan Quaintance takes this opportunity to show off his tuneful and powerful voice when left bereft of digitisation. Also they seem to know the fastest way to the heart of the youth of today, via copious amounts of cowbell!

There are downsides to this, their energy is hard to maintain throughout it's near 40 minute run and tracks 2 and 3 tread uncomfortably similar terrain. "Let's Make Out" meanwhile places proceedings inside the mind of a delinquent youth with a serious case of the one track mind. Whether that counts as a good or a bad thing will very much depend on how much you enjoy conversing with the behooded gangs standing outside of you local grocery store.

So, to be precise, you're getting yourself into a brain-free yet fun album which despite not exercising your intelligent, doesn't see fit to insult it either. Now if you think this review is going to end with a pun about how you're unlikely to be offended by this album, you clearly don't know us that well!