Kodaline (No 1,365)

Reading this on mobile? Click here to listen

Hometown: Dublin.

The lineup: Stephen Garrigan, Vinnie May Jr, Jason Boland and Mark Prendergast.

The background: You may have seen Kodaline's All I Want on YouTube – almost a quarter of a million people have. Not exactly Psy/Gangnam Style statistics, but still, pretty impressive for a debut single. It's the lead track from the Dublin quartet's EP and the video is a real tear-jerker, a beauty-and-the-beast melodrama with a happy ending (don't be rude), set in an office much like the one in The Office, with the lead character, the facially challenged one, looking roughly like Martin Freeman might do halfway through being made to resemble a werewolf as he moons over the hottie two desks down.

Kodaline's other tracks haven't fared quite as well but the band – four schoolfriends in their early 20s from an estate near Dublin airport – are being highly touted by the usual Zanes and Huws for their admittedly very Zane- and Huw-friendly indie anthemia. It's halfway between Oasis's brand of high/fly/sky banal uplift and Coldplay's soaring tedium. The four tracks on their EP were recorded with Steve Harris, producer of the Dave Matthews Band and mixer of U2, and you can tell – it's no-nonsense indie with epic ambitions, and Kodaline appear to believe the Joshua Tree and Parachutes are the last word in searing emotionalism. "Music should have a purpose, you know," they say. "Our purpose is honesty."

Did we say they sound like Coldplay? All I Want really sounds like Coldplay, or at least Coldplay as they sounded 10 years ago, which, to be honest, was the last time we deliberately set out to listen to them. Kodaline are Yellow-era Coldplay, although there is a dash of Viva La Vida about the mid-section of All I Want, and when it really gets going the drumming is excellent, with apologies for the faint praise. Meanwhile, the singer has modest enough demands: "All I want is nothing more – to hear you knocking at my door." We feel sure that can be arranged, especially now that his band are taking off. His voice is very Chris Martin, our least favourite rock superstar this side of Bono, and the music accelerates from a ballady start to a brisk canter. Songs that canter – yuk.

Still, Kodaline should worry – the song has been picked to appear on Grey's Anatomy, a sure sign of something (probably that they are about to have their song featured on the soundtrack to Grey's Anatomy). Lose Your Mind is psych-by-numbers, the sort of thing Liam Gallagher might scribble on the back of a serviette while the missus takes the nipper to the bathroom at Nando's. "100,000 butterflies floating in the orange skies above my head," goes the lyric, the singer variously dreaming of wandering lonely as a cloud and holding a dolphin's fin. Perfect World is so post-Thom/Bono/Chris, the holy triumvirate of everything mundane about rock these last 25 years, it's not true. On Pray the singer admits he's been counting the days since his woman went away and he's been drinking alone to stop him weeping. Know the feeling, mate – we felt like bawling two minutes into this tune. That said, we fully accept that, if you like this kind of thing, you'll love it, and we can see its appeal even if it does make us gag, much like the girl in the video when old ugly chops catches her by surprise by the water cooler.

The buzz: "About to start a full-scale invasion into your middle ear" – Spindle.

The truth: About to parachute into a US hospital soap near you.

Most likely to: Lose their mind … round about … now.

Least likely to: Work in an office.

What to buy: The Kodaline EP is out now on B-Unique/RCA Victor.

File next to: Coldplay, Elbow, U2, Verve.

Links: kodaline.com.

Friday's new band: Nadine Shah.