The laid-back hip-hop groove and tongue-in-cheek non sequiturs--New Kids, Chinese food, Abercrombie & Fitch are all crammed into the song's first few lines--of LFO's Top 5 hit "Summer Girls" don't quite prepare the listener for the less loopy boy-groupisms that fill the rest of the trio's self-titled debut album. The single's wistfulness, though, does carry over into charming, well-sung cuts such as "Girl on TV" and "West Side Story." As does the flow of pop-culture references, many of which nicely presume that the target audience has a knowledge of events reaching beyond the first Backstreet Boys album. --Rickey Wright