Supergrass: Diamond Hoo Ha

From
its beginning as the bratty little brother of the Britpop moment, Supergrass
never looked built to last. But as Blur edged toward abstraction and Oasis got
better only at repeating itself, Supergrass has carried on reasonably well. The
band's 2005 album, Road To Rouen, sounded like a grab at artistic maturity—it lacked
tunes, in other words—but Diamond Hoo Ha dispenses with any such
pretensions. If the title weren't indication enough that this was a
back-to-basics effort, an opening riff that playfully rips off Led Zeppelin's
"Moby Dick" seals the deal.