'I Will Protect You' lurches in with some tube-crunching guitar and slightly ragged vocals delivering lyrics about angels falling from grace and rhyming 'grace' with 'face.' I find it hard to get excited by this kind of mid-tempo mediocrity. 'I Will Protect You' bares all the hallmarks of very average white boy indie fare. It's the sound of blokes in a band, belching, farting and drinking lager together, occasionally playing a few ramshackle tunes and thinking they're the next big thing
'Whatever' marks a subtle shift of trajectory and suddenly Heritage Centre sound like a band with some tension to release. There are some noodly keyboards over a guitar line that could be an Interpol outtake: it's poppy but with an edge. The lyric 'It's a shame your love was never meant for me / You can't see past your own face, you're a foolish child,' is delivered in tone that's bruised and pissed off, and you really feel it.
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'You Are Something (Radio Edit)' returns to rather blander territory. The guitar line's pretty enough but there's nothing to differentiate it from any one of countless other indie tunes that are all equally forgettable. It's an edit because it fades out.
There's a clean radio edit of 'I Will Protect You' too. Radio stations don't often play songs with swearing - so there's a dropout in the vocals in the second verse. Will it get them airplay? Maybe....
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