Life must be great for the Math and Physics Club, their sunny dispositions, hopeful outlook and wholly optimistic take on life coupled with the most uplifting guitar jangles since McGuinn and Marr make for a life worth living, even through the moments of desolation, melancholy and self loathing. I don’t really know how they get to be this way, maybe it’s where they are from, maybe it’s just where they are at, I don’t know how and I don’t know why, but I do know this: life without the Math and Physics Club would be a much duller place.

Picture open sun kissed palm tree lined boulevards, picture glowing sunsets over endless white beaches and crystal aqua marine seas, feel the wind in your hair as you ride through the Californian sunshine in your soft top convertible and you’re getting to be some of the way there.

I cannot imagine any other band making a song about the last five seconds of love sound so utterly entrancing and alluring. It almost makes you long for those moments of desperation as your whole raison d’etre crumbles around you, it makes you realise that these are the times when you are most alive, when you feel the most, when you are either coasting on the waves of life or being dragged under the rip tide by them.

This record has the ability to make you smile through the tears, to make you want to swing around the room with gay abandon, it’s a sunset walk on a beach, it’s an indie pop disco dance to your favourite band, it’s a kiss in the rain and a glance across a crowded room from the one you love, it is, without doubt the perfect summer record.

Johnny Mac

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