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Spin Magazine - Peter Gaston

If I could revisit my later teenage years, I'd wear out my Nirvana records more than I did, save up money for a Gibson SG guitar, and start a band just like the Subways. That's because frontman Billy Lunn totally has it made. His band includes Charlotte Cooper--Lunn's button-cute, bass-playing girlfriend--and his brother, Josh Morgan, who provides near-Grohlian thunder on drums.

Despite a mean age of 19, the Subways stood confidently on the Astoria stage last Sunday night. "1AM," the band's breakthrough single, found the young lovers trading verses about falling for each other in a Human League sort of way, but without the innocence lost. And the simplistic but beautiful rejoicing of "With You"--"When I'm with you, it seems so easy"--had equal potential as a teenage mantra or a big juicy wad of aww-shucks cuteness for the grown-ups. Lunn got a bit prophetic on "Oh Yeah," singing "These teenage years, well they don't last." That's right, Billy. Not when you're in a band this good.

But it felt like each successive adorably vicious ditty fired up synapses in a dozen more teenage brains across the Astoria floor, encouraging them to run home and create something meaningful.