Yeh Deadlies’ The First Book Of Lessons is currently garnering generous praise from all corners for its sweet harmonies, cheery disposition and catchy hooks, but this is an album that also bristles with the melancholy of growing pains. Highlights include the punk pop wordplay of 7” single ‘Magazine’; the swing-band-meets-Lizzy strangeness of ‘Sophomore Evil’; and the droning kraut-rock of’Learning Chinese’.