No-one asked for a new Blur, nor
did anyone expect Creation's haphazard stake in the all-new Musically Relevant
Wales to fill that role, but this Cardiff-based five-piece
peedle a well-informed take on Britpop with their DIY-looking debut. Their
mental rock, while essentially poppy-harmonic, is often breathtaking (If
You Don't Want Me To Destroy You could easily be off Bowie's Space Oddity),
and singer Gruff Rhys allows a pleasing measure of Welsh accent into his
voice. Even a duff association with This Year's Criminal, Howard Marks,
cannot dull their shine.