Rock review: McFly, Radio:Active

 

Times have changed indeed when even boy bands opt to leave major labels and set up their own operations.

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McFly's first post-major decision was to give away this album with the Mail On Sunday in June, meaning that, three months on, its "official" release feels anticlimactic. But as a declaration of independence, Radio:Active does them proud. Writers of exuberant solid guitar-pop, there's little separating McFly from Supergrass except, well, credibility. That is, unless you pay attention to the lyrics, which ring with the frustration of being pigeonholed as innocuous pop munchkins. "My voice is gone for screaming and my body aches from giving them hell," they grumble on Everybody Knows, while the nearly punk One for the Radio moans about snobs who pretend to hate them while singing along to their songs. Time to class them as more than just a guilty pleasure, perhaps.

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