Back in the Nineties, singer-guitarist Jackie McKeown played with Alex Kapranos in Yummy Fur, and Cookies wields the same kind of crisp, trebly guitars and indie swagger Kapranos later brought to Franz Ferdinand, allied on songs such as "Arcade Precinct", "Enjoying Myself" and the lazy-student quandary "Thinking of Not Going" to a dry wit and hip delivery.  Full text...

Cookies is too (musically) reverent to be a great album but it is great fun, more so than any other indie-pop record in years.  Full text...

Cookies is not a perfect album - its middle section sags slightly before reconciling with the final two tracks - but as debut albums go, it's as chocolate-chipper as anything you'll hear this summer.  Full text...

If there's one suitable description of the decade that was the 1990s, it's fun. Indeed, compared to the greedy, bloated '80s or the increasingly dark and depressing '00s, the '90s seemed to be one long party - filled with good music, good times and a (now rather misguided) sense of optimism about the future.   Full text...

This is fun.  Full text...

A frowning disappointment.  Full text...