When the world lets you down, when your government doesn't speak on your behalf, when your town is all dead ends and dying dreams, there's always music. That's the message of ‘House Of Commons', the debut album from White Light Parade. Formed a few years back in Bradford, West Yorkshire, White Light Parade - aka singer/guitarist Danny Yates, his brother and co-songwriter Jono on vocals and second guitar, bassist Tom Emmett, and drummer Nici Todd - are all about belief... the sort of belief that's fostered by setbacks and knock backs, the sort of belief you build because, well, what's the alternative? The album title is a political one, but don't mistake this as a respectful tip of the hat to our elected leaders. "The front cover is a Bradford council house," explains Danny. "It's just a reflection of our surroundings. A lot of bands out there right now are singing about nothing, but that's never appealed to us. What with how things are right now, with the recession going on, we really want to talk about real life. Those people who are going through the same struggles, the people who can't find work - we want to reach out to them."

And ‘House Of Commons' is the sort of album you can easily see uniting a small army of believers. Recorded in Devon with Pete Miles, an up-and-coming producer most recently seen on the knobs for the King Blues' debut album ‘Save The World, Get The Girl', it's a debut album that sees White Light Parade's more familiar early touchstones - the snarling three-chord anger of the Pistols, the anthemic choruses of Oasis and the vintage melodies of The Kinks - softened and broadened. New single ‘Wake Up' is the band's brightest, most beautiful moment to date, a sunny blast of optimism that should blow out the cobwebs - but for a real surprise, check out the dub remix. "It's just a natural thing for us," explains Danny. "We've been into reggae and ska for ages - we started listening to punk bands, but you hear how they'd breathed in reggae, how it had become part of them, and soon you're hunting down their influences, buying music by Bob Marley and Junior Marvin..."