Where to begin, where to begin. This London-based band is formed around two Finnish brothers who threw their education as classical pianists out of the window to play in a rockband. Deep Cuts, Fast Remedies is their second album after their debut Animal Farm and their first release on Victory Records.

The album, kicks off with a couple of pleasant rocking emo-pop songs such as “Average Kid” and “Popstars (Love This)”. The driving guitars go well with the melodic vocals and the band as a whole reminds me of bands like Jimmy Eat World and Sparta. Skipping a few songs ahead, the band surprises the arse off of me by doing a cover version of “Boy In The Bubble”, originally by hippie icon Paul Simon.

My faith in Snowdog’s potential is not exactly strengthened by this, as the rest of the album goes downhill pretty fast. Do not get me wrong: not every band out there has to rock as hard as Tear It Up, but when your band sounds like The Counting Crows (as the Snowdogs do in the annoying “End Of The World”), there is something fucking wrong in my book.

The next few songs, the band hovers between pop and indie rock and even manages to squeeze out a redundant ska-tune, “Hour Of Sunshine”. Later on, the Dogs try to go balls out in semi-rockers “Hell Outta Dodge” and “Amazon”, but that doesn’t make it a lot better.

The rest of this album sounds like the grey area between Hootie And The Blowfish and something Dave Grohl left in the toilet after a night on the town. I don’t know what Tony Brummel was on when he signed this band, but I can’t see them do any good for his label. If Paul Simon writes one of the better songs on your album, get the hell out of my stereo.