Glasvegas - Glasvegas

Trends can be fickle beasts. For those who set them, the rise and fall from grace can be a cruel one, and that Glasvegas have been forecast as the next great British band - and the possible saviours of Rock n' Roll - has set them up for the hardest of falls. For each band who simply can’t meet such ludicrous expectation, there are those who effortlessly fulfil it, and with their debut album, Glasvegas have done just that. From re-workings of earlier material such as Go Square Go, Daddy’s Gone and current single Geraldine, to Polmont On My Mind’s anthemia, S.A.D. Light’s nursery rhyme melancholy and album closer Ice Cream Van’s desolate poetry; Glasvegas is a debut that ultimately proves to be determinedly heavyweight, restrainedly succinct, and which, essentially, carries a sense of being not just culturally relevant, but of being absolutely definitive within current music culture. [Paul Neeson]