Struggling to understand the amount of venom directed at Iglu & Hartly

Everything this very angry review of the Iglu & Hartly album says is true.

However, unlike the publication in question we think that any band described as 'Andrew WK and the Chuckle Brothers smeared in baby oil' is a completely brilliant prospect.

If we just take a look at the following facts:
Andrew WK: Brilliant.
The Chuckle Brothers: Brilliant.

Sure, Iglu & Hartly aren't cool. They're not big and they're not clever but GEEZ, can't people lighten up a little bit? What sort of state would the world be in if all guitar music was as introspective and glum as, for instance, Glasvegas. Great band, but we'd all be in a state of terminal despair if our iPods were stuffed with only miserable northerners.

Iglu & Hartly can be compared to a lot of bad bands. The Darkness, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Crazytown and Limp Bizkit but at least all these bands did something other than stand moodily on a stage banging on about an ex-girlfriend with a big fringe dangling over their big grumpy faces.

Like Iglu & Hartly they entertain, they have fun and they don't take themselves seriously. Personally we wouldn't compare Iglu & Hartly to any of these bands, we instead see more similarities with one hit wonders Len or Bran Van 3000, and while I&H may well end up as nothing more than a temporary presence in the music world, they'll burn bright and brilliantly as long as tracks such as 'In This City', 'Jump In Your Car' and the brilliant 'Dayglo' are around to make people happy.

But maybe we should all just go and have another listen to something by Biffy Clyro for the rest of the day.

Iglu & Hartly 'Dayglo'