Pitchfork

If you think post-Libertines Britrock reached its nadir with Razorlight, be grateful you've yet to hear the contributions of the Fratellis. To hear "Flathead" (easier now that it's featured in the latest iPod commercials) is to discover new depths. No victory is too easy for Barry, Jon, and Mince. (Yes, Mince.) They get loaded. They have a good time with girls apparently all too willing to oblige ("Hers is a tonic and mine is a gin"). And for a soundtrack, well... they offer a mess of ba-da-bas, Kooks-y jangle, and Borrell tonsillitis. The track is triumphant without any genuine triumph-- miles from the hard-won pleasures of "Time for Heroes" and "Don't Look Back Into the Sun." In fact, the celebratory tone is so at odds with the emptiness that lingers at song's end, you can only hope they really are as ignorant as they seem. We should all be so lucky.