There is very definite dividing line for this band. If you like Morrissey and don’t mind a singer who borrows heavily from his vocal style, you’ll probably enjoy The Boyfriends. Call them Mozzeresque.

On “I Love You” singer Martin Wallace unabashedly croons his proclamations of love with lyrics as subtle as the big glammy riff the song is built around. “If I know love then this is it / You are all my dreams come true / Cupid scored a direct hit / I’d do anything for you.” And so on. It’s decent but with typical up-and-coming British pop star bluster, Wallace claims on the band’s bio page, “I really do think that ‘I Love You’ is the most important British pop record for years because it says something that too many people are afraid to say, in a way that they’re too afraid to say it.” At this very moment thousands of British girls are listening to the song and swooning.

Musically the b-side “Remember” is catchy and upbeat, cribbing it’s intro from Talking Heads. The lyrics though are ridiculously maudlin. “Remember me when I am gone away / For death will not keep us apart.” Ho-hum. Well, he sounds like Morrissey. I didn’t say he could write like him.

You can stream “I Love You” and a couple of demos from the band’s Myspace page. There are two additional demos in the music section of the band’s official site. And if you’d like to download the single and b-side, check over at eMusic.