The United Kingdom’s answer to the root canal is back with yet another album full of insipid Indie Pop jingles.

From their pretentious Hipster appeal to manufactured angst, I hated everything about Los Campesinios! the first time around, so it’s fairly safe to assume that little has changed with the recently released Romance Is Boring.

First single “There Are Listed Buildings” is joyous and unabashedly insincere, as a self-obsessed Gareth placates his idealism with empty promises of love everlasting, “I think I’d do it for love if it were not for the money/I’ll take any scraps that you can give.”

The album’s lone highlight “The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future” is equally as vacuous, but if not for the piercing chorus and Gareth’s monotone cadence, could have potentially passed for a decent song.

Tegan and Sara have proven time and time again that their success as musicians and identity as a band extends beyond the novelty of watching identical lesbian twins perform unspeakable deeds.

However, while albums So Jealous and The Con helped establish the sister act as bonafide Indie Pop contenders, latest effort Sainthood (produced by Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie fame) does little to advance their cause.

A smitten Sara struggles to maintain her composure (“Make those eyes at me/I lose my grip, I lose my focus.”) on the impossibly adorable “On Directing”, whose glittering Pop vibrancy is ultimately dulled by its own Post-Punk disillusionment.

Catchy as the “The Cure” may be, the song suffers from its stale lyrics and a fairly generic melody that ironically sounds like a bizarre mash-up of “Friday I’m In Love” and “Just Like Heaven”.