How good is your memory? Colour of Fire, anyone? The Chet EP rumbles to life with the same pounding rythym and machete-sharp riffs, but towers about ten times higher than said Robot Rockers as the chorus to opener 'Chet's on Fire' rolls around. And yet, somehow, it sounds as melodic and sugary as it does furious. They're pissed off that they've run out of Haribo. Throw in synths, too, and you're dealing with a track that is so damn catchy that you'll have it flitting through your head for the rest of the week. Trust me, I know.
The standard doesn't drop an inch as 'What', despite threatening to resemble a Casio keyboard demo of 'There She Goes' for about six seconds, then morphs into the strongest, and most poppy, track on this EP. Here lies another stellar chorus and the most awesome repetition of one word in a song since MC Hammer mused "My my my music hits me so hard". You can literally feel youthful exhuberance, passion, and balls pouring from your speakers for each four and a half minute session you will spend in the company of this tune. Not bad for a straightforward pop song about nothing too weighty.
'Don't Back Down' roars out the speakers once more, but again, it's poppy, it's melodic, and yet as heavy as you like. The synth really lends this track it's unique edge, as it genuinely is something different. In fact, this band band lie on the rarely trod ground somewhere between the criminally underrated Colour of Fire, and the Killers, just with far better songs, and without an annoying dick for a frontman.
As the EP comes to a close with 'Hideous Sight' you can forgive the band their occasionally cheesy moments, and the fact that the EP becomes less memorable towards it's conclusion, and even the fact they probably listened to Bravery records in the past. The rest of their record collections are probably way, way cooler, and hey, who cares about all that anyway when the tunes are this good, right?
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