Wow. Just Wow.

Johnny Foreigner’s name sounds like that of some character from The Mighty Boosh, one of those really hip stars Vince Noir was chasing around in Eels trying to tag. In fact, we are sure Noel Fielding felt a bit pissed off when he heard this name he’d never thought of.

Johnny Foreigner do this thing: taking ‘fight pop’ to a whole new level. The new single,Criminals, is great. It is youthful, energetic and rock (in an age when one has to be so many things after rock) and you know it will make such a festival anthem. It doesn’t creep slowly into your ears, it just hits you in your solar plexus from second one.

The promo comes with two b-sides, Camp Kelly Calm and Wow. Just Wow (one of the best song titles we’ve heard in ages and a line that can in fact sum up the whole promo). Unlike Criminals,Camp Kelly Calm doesn’t start like a monster pop-punk anthem and it does have moments when the three kids from Birmingham let you breath only to take you on a crazier ride. But it has what can easily be one of the best intros: “You said ‘see, I'm not just a pretty face’/ And how you're wrong, you're not, you're not even pretty!”.

Wow. Just Wow is just as tight as the previous two, the drums are just as big and the two singers spit their words with the same passion as before. Truth is any of these songs could easily become a single. And all there of them should be some of next year’s festival favourites.