More fun, more brash, more angular, more assured than his debut, Squeezing out Sparks is a good, soft-edged, T-shirt cannon blast of punk-esque new wave, evoking Nick Lowe and predicting Elvis Costello by a handful of years. I still don't see all this anger that people attribute to Graham, but we're living in a post-Cobain, post-Mathers, post-Pink Eye world; we're pretty tough to unnerve, us 2013 folks.
Absent that sense of danger, the songs read a little bit flat, often sounding a dozen or so BPM short, but its all perfectly enjoyable, full of brash hooks and simple pleasures 3.5/5
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