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The second track on Farrah's debut album is a frisky little number called "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend." The song is an infectious Ramones-by-way-of-'60s-girl-group shout-out, and you feel that you may finally have a band unafraid to be catchy. But "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" is a cover of a song by the Rubinoos, one of the groups signed to the Beserkley label that defined American power pop in the late '70s, and the rest of Moustache never quite reaches this giddy height again. England's Farrah plays straightforward, clean-cut music that's a bit like a boy version of the Donnas--if that band had grown up listening to Cheap Trick instead of Mötley Crüe. There are plenty of tantalizing pop moments ("Living for the Weekend" starts off a bit like a La's outtake), but too often the group's energy is undermined by dull lyrics. Still, a track like "Lois Lane," a power ballad on which Farrah boldly steps into Matchbox Twenty territory, shows that the group may have a future on American radio. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
Moustache,Farrah,Ark 21,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop
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