One Night Only: 'Just For Tonight'

If you haven't stumbled across One Night Only already, count your blessings - these pop-rock scamps are going to riddle the airwaves with their Kooks-lite guitar hits in 2008. The CD case should come with a stamped picture of Jo Whiley's face on the front and a warning that purchasing this single will only encourage A&R types to sign yet more namby-pamby, emotionally vacuous indie bands. If you find the Pigeon Detectives a little too complex or want somebody to fill the space between Snow Patrol and Coldplay albums, One Night Only are more than capable jobbers.

'Just For Tonight' does its best to sound grandiose and anthemic, but it's only ever a guitar flick away from morphing into Feeling-style soft rock, while George Craig's strained hollers make Johnny Borrell's mumbling over what's on American radio sound like the deep musings of a Cambridge University professor. Lyrics like: "Just for tonight, just maybe we'll make it, sing like you want this," repeated ad nauseam, render any deduction of meaning pointless. The result is a flaccid blob of indie-by-numbers.