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MOB RULE ~ I can’t believe that D’Luv finds the Kaiser Chiefs annoying They are the perfect specimen of a great pop band. Songs like I Predict A Riot, Oh My God and Every Day I Love You Less and Less had choruses just as unique and catchy as Just A Little and Love Machine, Hip to Hip and Your Game. The new album, Yours Truly Angry Mob sees the boys ditch the dodgy stripy blazers and has lead singer morphing into a lookalike of Gary Barlow to present a collection of harder edged tunes that retain their pop essentiality (new word!) Rubyrubyrubyruby is a rowdy rabble of a song that sets the tone nicely; Thankyou Very Much is like a new and improved riot that thrills from start to finish; the lovely piano based Boxing Champ is like a more sedate Rufus Wainwright and sees drummer Nick on lead vocals for the first time, and Try Your Best is going to have all the lighters aloft at the summer festivals such is it’s magnificence and sing-a-long-a-bility. What makes it so pop is that it’s an awful lot of fun to listen to and jolly catchy too – and that’s all you can hope for in a record…