The Click Five: Greetings From Imrie House : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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The Click Five play power pop with the potential to actually become popular: They sport boy-band faces, hipster haircuts, Strokes suits and massive, multiple hooks. This Boston band wrote several hit-worthy tracks itself on its relentlessly catchy debut album, but the Click Five turn to Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger to pen their lovesick first single, "Just the Girl," and to Kiss' Paul Stanley, who co-wrote the rocking "Angel to You (Devil to Me)." Guitarist Elliott Easton solos on the latter, and that's not the only connection with Easton's old band, the Cars: Not only do the Click Five add synthesizers to their hefty guitars, but they also pour on the harmonies and the slick production tricks in a way that recalls Boston's great power poppers. Simultaneously retro, current, mainstream-minded and knowing, the Click Five are poised to appeal to both Ashlee Simpson fans and their parents.