Various Cruelties: Various Cruelties – review

(Mercury)Some albums grow with repeated listens; this isn't one of them. Various Cruelties' songs are instantly catchy, but the closer you get to radio-friendly tracks such as Chemicals and Great Unknown, or the 1960s psych-pop of Cold as You, the more reminiscent this London-based quartet become of the pub-rock outfits that clung to the ankles of Oasis in the mid-1990s and made so much of Britpop creatively redundant. To be fair, they're not totally stuck in the past, as the shivery guitar lin...

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