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“New-school power-pop” is how The Click Five are classifying their music. With their matching suits and haircuts, The Click Five are truly throwbacks to The Beatles or The Wonders from That Thing You Do! The band opens their sugary-sweet disc with “Good Day,” a track that certainly gets a foot to tap or a head to bob. Their music never leaves its “feel-good” groove, bringing the older listener back to middle-school, teenybopper years.

The band is fronted by the tenor emo/whiny vocals of Eric Dill. Rich, five-part harmonies straight off a Beach Boys record round out the slickly produced tracks handled by Wayne Sharp. Joe Guese (lead guitar), Ethan Mentzer (bass), Ben Romans (keyboards) and Joey Zehr (drums) complete the quintet with their novice musical abilities, relying on pulsing guitar lines and layer after layer of synthesizer and vocal effects.

“Just The Girl” (one of three tracks written by outside musicians) is the first single off the barely 40-minute album, and its sappy, lovesick lyrics sound like an echo of a young Donny Osmond crooning “Puppy Love.” Each song is a cliché-filled pop-fest about teenage love with unoriginal lyrics that seem to be juxtaposed together for the sole purpose of end rhyme. “Angel To You (Devil To Me)” recalls parts of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” with the sudden harmonies in the b-section. “Pop Princess” skips a decade with its ’80s jam-band synthesizer introduction. “Time Machine” shows a slight sense of musical ability on the band’s part with their use of cello and violin in a classical-style opening, but quickly dissolves into another pointless pop song. “Lies” seems to be a last-ditch effort at a “rock anthem” with its shout chorus and drum fills.

The Click Five deliver an ear-pleasing pop record, but severely lack musical creditability in this era of prodigal singer-songwriter-musicians.

The Chronicle gives “Greetings From Imrie,” by The Clcik Five three out of five stars.