Songdog – 'The Time Of Summer Lightning' (One Little Indian) Released 27/06/05

An album so depressingly awful it makes David Gray sound good, an unbelievable statement. An acoustic guitar, earnest delivery of laughable lyrics and song titles like ‘The Waitress From Yorkville, Toronto’ and ‘The Sky Was So Blue It Was Scary’. Do you need to know anything more?

Ok, track six (which is the SINGLE, ahahahahahaaaaa) is a cover of 'Janie Jones' – one of the undisputed classic punk singles. A song which helped launch one of Britian’s greatest rock bands, The Clash, and a musical movement so great it paved the wave for the Eighties.

And what have Songdog (grrrrreat name guys) done with it? They’ve put a ****ing synth and xylophone on it, reduced it to a slow, picky acoustic guitar number complete with a vocals so ****ing tortured it sounds even worse than the product of a genetically morphed mutant of ****-heads James **** and Chris Fartin.

It’s so bad it deserves to be played over and over and over on Ken Bruce’s Radio Two show until someone has a nervous breakdown and hunts down Songdog and weasels them to death.