When the first banging beats, crunching guitars and scrap yard lyrical mayhem of ‘Love Like Semtex’ and ‘Can’t Get Enough’ come crashing like pandemonium around your eardrums, you’re likely to be thinking of that daft Shaun Ryder fella lumbering around like a drug addled maniac with a pudding haircut on that show your smashed old Grandpa told you about: that Top Of The Pops in the nineties or at the very least those saucy dominatrix fellows, the Frankies in the Eighties. Anyway, whatever you’re thinking about, it’s likely to be someone else: Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, EMF, Jesus Jones, Primal Scream. You know the score. So if you turn off now without venturing further, you’re not getting the bigger picture. Sure these End End boys with the name snagged from an Osama Bin Laden outburst and a cast of thousands have been rifling through the drawers of history with giddy abandon, but as songs like ‘Top Boy’ and ‘Jagger ‘67’ show us, they’ve also been putting these lardy old techno-dance favourites through some blistering new paces, bagging some classic one liners in the process. The Audio Bullys do all this but better? Perhaps, but the Bullys aren’t able to produce the effortless pop sass of the psychedelic ‘Girls That Speaks No Words’ or the pure synth bliss of ‘Murder That Sound’ on demand like this little pack of incendiaries. The mock-rock posturing and the camp efforts to shock may occasionally let them down, but the dreamy, trippy tapestries of spaced-out opium epic, ‘Strories From The Bar’ and the ambient sparkle of ‘1’20’ show that, Bnaan, Matty and the boys have got enough cartridges in their rounds to shoot a few holes in our argument yet. Even if we don’t know what they’re singing about.
In short, ‘We Are Not The Infadels’ is hit after hit of juicy, insatiable dirty pop, as instant as MSN Messenger and as catchy as velcro. And what’s more, there’s no let up in said fun from beginning to end. The last time you got turned on as quickly as this you were either satisfying yourself with x-rated material on Channel 5 or listening to The Killers. Get to it..