The album's 12 songs are all based around being unlucky in love, with I Found Out's tale of finding out the girl you like is going out with someone else, Take Her Back about a failed age-difference romance and Caught in Your Trap, with its shimmering Elvis Costello-type sheen, telling the story of obsessive crushes.  Full text...

Bubbly guitars, northern sung vocals, and an album full of indie pop, The Pigeon Detectives could have one of 2007's success stories under their belt.  Full text...

Far from being dumb, The Pigeon Detectives are actually following one of pop's wisest rules: if it ain't broke, don't add a bloody string quartet.   Full text...

Wait For Me is chock full of smart, snappy indie pop anthems that confront the rigours of youth, its anxieties, its petty squabbles and its hedonsim and sexuality.  Full text...

The Ramones meet The Shangri-Las on Leeds five-piece's debut collection of teenager in love pop delights.  Full text...

For those people who may think these whole 'New Yorkshire' business is a bit last year, then look no further to the Pigeon Detectives to disprove your theory. A steady stream of independently released singles and the inevitably large exposure on MySpace has meant that they're currently selling out venues bigger than the Kaiser Chiefs did at the same stage of their career.  Full text...

It is laddish, knockabout stuff but, like Bowman’s habit of encouraging female audience members to hand him their undergarments, it wears thin in no time.  Full text...