[As part of his eMusic Takeover, BBC DJ and indie taste-making legend Steve Lamacq chose five records for us to feature as Review of the Day. Here's what he had to say about Pete & The Pirates' One Thousand Pictures.]

Pete & the Pirates are a great band, but they aren’t a fashionable band; they’re just a band of blokes that are quite good at making music. How would you sell them to a TV or radio station? “They make good songs?”

I like bands who are clever lyrically, because rock ‘n’ roll gets to that point where there are no new equations left. But you can still make something which is really interesting lyrically, and I think Tom [Sanders] creates these little postcard vignettes of things in his head. They are these amazing images. I have a video in my head for every song on that record. And it might not be what he was thinking about when he was writing it, but he chills me to the bone sometimes with the little snapshots he comes up with. I think it’s the fragile romantic in him, which means you sink deeper into his soul than you do with a lot… read more »