The Subways — Young For Eternity

With a next-big-thing blessing from the NME and a best unsigned performer honour from the 2004 Glastonbury Festival under their belts, The Subways have high expectations to live up to on their debut record. For the most part, those expectations are met. Young For Eternity is a rollicking mish-mash of punk, garage and guitar-pop with melodies as powerful as the riffs that punctuate them. Even though he covers a surprising range of territory, with the '50s-evoking "Mary" sitting comfortably beside the thrashing Oasis-like title track, guitarist/songwriter Billy Lunn maintains a cohesive vision throughout the affair. Despite the occasional immature lyric, this feels like the record The Vines always wanted to make.

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