Rosemary - Suburban Kings

Timing is crucial in all things; be it in approaching the net in Tennis to pluck a winning smash out of the air mercilessly or approaching Moscow with aspirations of invasion as a certain Adolf Hitler found to his peril in the early forties. Whilst pop music admittedly doesn't bear much similarity to Tennis, or indeed expansionism (save regarding Johnny Borrell who clearly does have plans to take over the world) there is no denying that timing is just as important in a musical context.

This is never better proven than with London musketeers Rosemary's debut single, 'Suburban Kings' which is three minutes of cider stained summer clothes and long evenings easily passed. Dual vocals fly back and forth over sunshine laden jangling guitar lines carelessly, as if to back up the refrain of 'we don't mind at all' that the song is hinged upon.

This brand of easy-going, spirited sing-a-long inciting guitar pop is possibly not the most enduring or even rewarding single that one could ever wish to hear, but that is just as well because it is not particularly trying to be. And afterall, on a scorching hot summer's day would you really choose a gobstopper over a Mr Whippy?

Jack Shankly