There's a telling moment during the "meet the band" bonus video on the Music's debut CD in which drummer Phil Jordan, the group's deftly frantic center, explains that it was listening to the Chemical Brothers that got him into playing drums. That BPM focus helps these four barely twenty-year-old lads from Leeds, England, to create a sound as driven by their love of Daft Punk as it is by, say, the Who's Live at Leeds, with standard guitar-bass-drums instrumentation and the Perry Farrellesque pipes and rubber-band gangliness of singer Robert Harvey. Headliners the Vines aren't really the new Nirvana, but the Music could be the next Jane's Addiction.
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