Hailing from Southend, Baddies released their debut single ‘Battleships’ just under a year ago and since then, according to their press release, have had everyone ‘spaffing in their pants.’ Yes that’s right ‘spaffing!’ Now I’m not going to judge a band entirely on their press release, but this does highlight my main problem with Baddies: despite their sometimes catchy and energetic sound they just seem so crude and juvenile.Comparisons to bands such as Kaiser Chiefs are understandably rife, but at least when the Kaiser Chiefs released Employment in 2005 this kind of sound was still relatively novel. The first track from debut Do The Job, ‘Tiffany”¦I’m Sorry’ displays the bands predilection for a brilliantly pounding bass line but ultimately it is equally as facile as recent single ‘Open One Eye.’ In terms of writing a catchy hook the Baddies achieve moderate success, but when it comes to writing the lyrics, well that just seems a different story entirely. I just can’t bring myself to like a song that produces such gems as “This happened when I was just seven years old, or was it six I’m not sure if I remember” and “Someone turned up empty handed, I asked them why they were so empty handed”.Previously failing to evoke the raw energy of Queens of the Stone Age, Baddies offering ‘We Beat Our Chests’ does little to revive my flagging opinion as they have a stab at the Arctic Monkeys. And whilst I’m aware that such a formula has worked well in the past: repeating a few key phrases ad-nauseam does not a good guitar anthem make.Its 2009, there is an incredible pool of talented artists surfacing from underground scenes and internet blogs everywhere. It is a tough clamber to the top, and those that make it  and manage to stay there for a while will have something more enduring, more infectious, and more poignant up their sleeves than this. There is a glimmer of potential in the ferocious energy the band bring to their music, punctuating catchy guitar hooks with upbeat melodies but  ultimately Do The Job is a stale and repetitive album.The Baddies debut effort has, in my mind, produced an undistinguished set of songs that proves musical maturity remains a long way off.