The Singles Jukebox

I’m more of a morning person myself…

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Alfred Soto: Me yakking in a rubbish bin at seven.
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Will Adams: A miserable slog through distortion pedals and banshee shrieks. To say nothing of the complete lack of danger or edge in the phrase “night people.”
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Ryo Miyauchi: They could’ve gone with weekend warriors, insomniacs, nightcrawlers, nocturnals, workaholics or 100 other terms to describe tired night-lifers and they chose… ‘night people.’ All the good ones were taken, sure, but really? They try to hype up the banner they chose with a telling of the cliched 9-to-5 pains, and riffs fit for a tattered denim jacket. But it doesn’t help the fact that they’re calling themselves the same thing coworkers do when they don’t identify as morning people.
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Iain Mew: The level of pleasure in the groove rises and falls, as does the level of try-hard attitude in the vocals. Unfortunately they’re at their lowest and highest respectively in the chorus, which means the worst part of the song is the most often repeated.
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Claire Biddles: Like Muse and Biffy Clyro before them, these critters are determined to extract the sex and danger from heavy guitar music. Which is fine, there’s an audience for that — 14-year-old boys have to see someone headlining Leeds Festival I suppose — but when the song claims to be about, um, sex and danger, the disconnect between lyrical effort and diluted performance exposes its lack of conviction, like a weak-voiced teenage boy singing a Fall Out Boy cover on X Factor rock week. 
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Edward Okulicz: This reminds me of nothing so much as this year’s Georgian Eurovision entry. And not just the video. You know, the rock one that the UK jury inexplicably gave 12 points to. This isn’t a flattering comparison.
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Jonathan Bradley: “Night People” has a chunky and rough-hewn riff that aspires to swagger, and rock ‘n’ roll is still a place where that sort of thing belongs. It helps, however, if it’s accompanied by a frontman with at least matching charisma. Josh Franceschi does have presence, but only in the sense that he was present in the studio when “Night People” was being recorded, and may even have opened his mouth near a microphone once or twice while a tape was running.
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