Orange Juice worship will get you far with the AllMusic blog. Chic + the Velvet Underground is the kind of musical equation that can’t be topped when calculated properly. Quick examples: Edywn and the lads on “I Can’t Help Myself”, Franz Ferdinand on “Take Me Out”, and now the Lodger’s “The Good Old Days”. The UK trio’s first album was fleetingly great indie pop with nice hooks and some songs you’d want to throw on a mixtape, but it lacked the one big song to help them break out and really be something special. “The Good Old Days” is the one, a sparkling summer jam for the sweater set to fall in love with. The soon to be released (May 19th on Slumberland) album Life is Sweet is destined to be a classic if the rest of the tunes are up to this level of gooey goodness. Keep your fingers crossed …

If you can only bear to love one band that sports sweaters, make it the Lodger. (Sorry, Vampire Weekend)

 
And check their MySpace page for two remixes of “The Good Old Days” that ought to fill the floors at indie disco nights for months to come.