The Duke Spirit

They're back! Back! BACK! (As Smash Hits would've said.) Liela Moss and her band of oestrogen fuelled House of Love copyists have been away far too long and it's great to have them around again. Their new sound is harder, rawer, even, but a hugely partisan audience lap up every new number like a fat kid in a new McDonald's. The old standards, such as "Lion Rip", "Dark Is Light Enough" and raucous closer "Love Is An Unfamiliar Name" still get the loudest cheers, but there are new favourites in the making here and if one band deserve to make it big in 2008, it's The Duke Spirit.