Brit-rock fans are not unjustified in their complaints that their genre is ignored by the mainstream media. Even the biggest bands – with the puzzling exception of Biffy Clyro – struggle to get exposure outside the world of Metal Hammer and Thrash Hits. But if any group can achieve greater visibility, it's this Surrey fivesome, who incorporate the looks of a hairy boyband and the kind of fist-pumping choruses that made the Foo Fighters superstars. Cavalier Youth, their fourth album (the last two both went top 5), finds its own groove, somewhere between the pounding relentlessness of Bullet for My Valentine and My Chemical Romance's gloomy self-absorption. These songs aren't subtle or overly innovative, but they hit their target: when singer Josh Franceschi, age 23, barks: "We're not young any more/ What are you so scared of?" on Too Young to Feel This Old, you can fairly hear the answering roar from every angsty year nine in Britain. The album is consistently tuneful, yet also pile-driving and monolithic. If their thrash hits also become smash hits, at least nobody can say they've sold out.