Earwigs are songs that instantly settle into your head. You curse them until you catch yourself humming one softly. The Briton Mika is the king of the earwig. His 2007 debut Life In Cartoon Motion was bursting with inescapable sing-alongs and that resulted in no less than five single hits. He did not become a well-respected artist, the makers of earwigs are generally disparaging. But Mika's biggest
… critics are usually colleagues who have toiled for years of their lives to come up with one such 'killer hook' themselves. Mika shakes them out of his sleeve, as appears again on his second album The Boy Who Knew Too Much. For twelve songs he lives up to his reputation as the most reliable hit supplier of his generation. (MS)more
