If you don’t get around to picking up the NME, it can be pretty easy to ignore the bands du jour that score their infamously fickle laudations. That isn’t such a bad thing really, considering that publication’s penchant for hyping up pretty average bands to the point of embarrassing saturation. While a front page appearance in the ol’ Express can cement a band as indie rock darlings, it can also be the kiss of death, with cynical critics and punters around the world taking the opportunity to chastise a band for having the nerve to appear on a cover of a magazine and not be really fucking good.

The Kaiser Chiefs are, at the time of writing, NME cover boys, all big heads, stupid grins and typically lame copy (Ooh! They’ve Gone All Big!). They’ve been riding on the back of an absolutely brilliant single (I Predict A Riot) and a slightly-less-brilliant album (Employment), pretty thoroughly entertaining those who’ve heard them. I Predict A Riot made its way to the top of the Australian Alternative chart, so clearly a lot of people do dig the Chiefs.

And here then is their second single, Everyday I Love You Less And Less, the opening track from Employment. And it’s good. Not nearly as good as the single that came before it, but certainly full of enough good-time ‘na na na’s’ – a Kaiser Chiefs specialty – and infectious hooks to get the kids dancing. It’s high-energy and urgent and synth-y, and it has great lines like ‘I can’t believe once you and me did sex / It makes me sick to think of you undressed.’ It’ll be a fun-hating dickhead who thinks the Chiefs don’t deserve their cover spot when they can release singles as silly and fun as this. As a singles band – that is, when you don’t have to listen to their tiny-dog-on-speed-running-around-on-fire energy for more than a few minutes – they’re just about as good as you could hope for.