Sevana Ohandjanian, Journalist

Midnight Memories is a genre lucky dip and thematically safe, but damn it, it sounds like they’re having fun.

The only beneficiaries of this record are the back-up singers who got paid to perform the standard ‘pop song uplifting climax’ backing that is on every single song.

Jake Bugg possesses the powerful talent of singing with a natural conviction and not coming off precocious.

Cupid Deluxe is contemplative music with a summertime beat made for dancing with a sway in your step.

The Wanted are One Direction’s sleazy older brothers. You know the ones – drunk on Breezers, making uncomfortably creepy comments to barely legal girls.

Fuck Buttons delivered a night that had us swept up in the all-consuming vivacity of melodic noise and eyefuls of imaginative scenery.

Girl Talk is another step in shaping Nash as a singer-songwriter, but lacks the consistency to make it memorable

"I try not to read too much about ourselves, whether it’s good or bad."

Sweet, not entirely memorable but never saccharine, Warm Blanket lives up to its title.

There’s endless charisma right through to the final torch song I Wanna Be Yours, and you can practically see Turner’s sly grin when he suggests wanting to be “your Ford Cortina, I will never rust”.

Ending on their cover of The Gun Club’s For The Love Of Ivy – no unnecessary encore – Japandroids left a remarkable impression at their first ever Sydney club show.