My BS detector gets activated whenever I read words like "We think the music we're making is much different than what else is going on" in a band's press kit. Yet after a listen to the Brent Bodrug (Alanis Morrisette) produced Channel Ninety-Two, this doesn't seem like a flimsy statement with no basis in reality.

Plastic Soul's immersion in Brit pop-rock, both past and present is unmistakably evident. Gerry Love loves writing about chicks and his relation to them. "Mary" and "Record Store" have Love pulling Lennon-esque vocal punches on top of solid melodies and the sort of guitar work that Noel Gallagher would envy. "I Know a Girl" opens with a bassline outta Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel's "White Lines", and builds to a banging chorus and an outro of Love crooning "Please let me love you like you love me", "One Inch Soul" is a likeably goofy white boy funk number sprinkled with "la di da di dees" and wheezing synth sounds, suggesting that the guys have had a brush with the Tom Tom Club or anything produced by Babyface. My favourite, "Ivy Woods", is a slower, sentimental acoustic number which would fit just as comfortably into Jarvis Cocker's songbook.

Bassist Alan Colicchia hopes the album will earn his band "a little more recognition in the city [Buffalo]." Greater commendation in Buffalo is a modest wish; Channel Ninety-Two's hooks and wordplay could see them powdering their noses for MTV by the year's end.