Mobile — Tomorrow Starts Today

After that whole Louis XIV fiasco, I've generally stopped relying on my psychic powers to predict a fledgling band's popularity. However, you don't need to be LaToya Jackson to see that young girls will soon be going apeshit for francophone rockers, Mobile. They even sound cute, if familiar. Mat Joly's plaintive vocals strongly suggest the Brendan Flowers school of emotive vocalizing. Mobile's stock Killers-meets-The Trews sound works in their favour, though. Songs like "Montreal Calling" are so alarmingly catchy and sweet that I wouldn't be surprised if their record company bypassed HMV and instead released the album straight into the hearts of Canadian girls everywhere. Mobile are a supremely well-crafted Canadian outfit who lack originality but are perfectly suited to the current whims of popular music.

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