The buzz surrounding Kubb suggests they are heading for the mainstream ubiquity enjoyed by Keane and Coldplay. Helpfully, they have big piano-thumping tunes and a daft name beginning with K. However, Kubb's is a slightly different cocktail: Abbey Road-era Beatles fronted by Jeff Buckley with a suggestion of epic, melancholy 1980s heroic failures such as Comsat Angels. The songwriting is well above average, especially in the likes of Wicked Soul, an almost fetishistically sexual confessional including the line, "I'm the weirdo in your bedroom". Other lyrical spiky edges - drugs, despair - peek from behind the radiofriendly production, which was masterminded by Youth, producer of the Verve's Urban Hymns. But Kubb's success may hinge on frontman Harry Collier's heartfelt falsetto. Discovered by Faithless's Rollo singing Happy Birthday in a restaurant, Collier is capable of sounding mysterious and mercurial - or, occasionally, as if he would benefit from doing National Service.