The Chalets – Check In (Setanta) album review

The cleverest pop bands, from Pet Shop Boys to new pups The Pipettes, understand the importance of having a genre-defining theme tune. Irish quintet The Chalets, being both smarter and evidently more pop-savvy than a coach-load of McFly fans, have written a whole album of them. It's gloriously danceable and absolutely irresistible, like Le Tigre mixing it with Roxy Music.

Charlie Ivens

originally appeared in The Fly magazine, October 2005 issue