Black Box Recorder - gsoh qed, 2003

"So exquisitely English that they make Radiohead, Coldplay and even Her Majesty the Queen seem like Bud-guzzling rednecks, Black Box Recorder are the pop project of Luke Haines, whose other band, the Auteurs, is a kind of hate-filled version of the Kinks. In this case, pop means honeyed synthesizer melodies acting as a Trojan horse for splendidly seedy lyrics about classified-ad dating, teenage lust and the horrors of the British school system."