While we wait with bated, eel pie tinged breath for The Mystery Jets third album, they’ve kindly decided to follow the trend and swap a preview track for your email address. However, unlike a lot of seemingly altruistic bands, The Mystery Jets have chosen to give away a really good song (all Kate Nash could muster was three minutes of wailing album filler). ‘Flash a Hungry Smile’ manages to somehow blur the line between potential Christmas single and something you’d put on your summer BBQ playlist. Despite this seasonal sporadicity, the song makes perfect, simple sense.
The song wouldn’t be too out of place on their second album, ‘Twenty One’ but it shows a clear progression. For a start, it just sounds insanely, almost self-mockingly happy. Blaine’s vocals range from sound inanely gleeful to exhaustedly strained, stopping for the odd whistle and whoop. All of this gaiety makes the suggestion that ‘All the birds and bees have caught STD’s’ sound in some way friendly. I suppose after being used to represent sex that many times, those poor birds and bees are bound to have caught something nasty. I just hope for the band’s sake that the rest of the album is as promising as this. If they’ve given away the best song for free that’s just terrible business sense.
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