Milburn – 'Cheshire Cat Smile' (Mercury) Released 10/07/06

Good mates of the Arctic Monkeys; Sheffield lads Milburn continue in there mission to stave of the inevitable accusations of nepotism with this, their second single, just about manage it.  It's a slight two minutes of undeniably enjoyable spiky, charged and impassioned indie rock. There's some of the brittle emotional edge of the Editors et al but  also an underlying swagger and  masculine enthusiasm not to mention a 90s Britpop edge that might suggest this whole Sheffield thing could have something of the northern uproar about it.