You get the feeling that My Awesome Compilation chose their name so that they can one day release a greatest hits album entitled One Awesome Compilation. That's quite a bit in the future of course, but there's already plenty of people waiting for this full-length debut album after last year's The View Is Amazing, which was championed by the likes of Zane Lowe.

On first listen, their UK take on the Get Up Kids' emo punk sounds a bit terrible, but it actually does work if you give it the chance, and Actions is a pretty good album.

Recent single Put Up A Fight was a good indication of what Actions delivers in spades, with spiky hooks and yearning harmonies, and although the English accents are a little disturbing at times in what is basically American music, MAC at least blow any fears of Busted comparisons out of the window quite early on.

Actions was produced by Larry Hibbett from UK rock faves Hundred Reasons, and manages to be both warm and cool at the same time, especially on Gave You Everything, where Woody (his real name? we're not convinced) Cobb's keyboards freewheel around guitar-driven mayhem and emotional traumas.

What You Do is a rather aimless and weak track, but with rocky tunes like Set To Go, You Need Discipline and Sirens, MAC will be inspiring plenty of mosh pits in their time. However, there is still too much filler on this album for it to be up there with the top rock albums released so far this year by the likes of Nine Black Alps.

They have a busy time ahead of them, touring with Jackson United, Juliette and the Licks, MXPX and Reel Big Fish as well as doing their own headline tour, but they'll certainly have the chance to spread the word around the country. There's still plenty of work for them before they can have that greatest hits album, but it's not out of the question in years to come.