The Subways may have won last year's Glastonbury Festival unsigned performers competition and be this year's darlings of the British music press. But here in the States, they're an album-less band with only a recent appearance on ''The O.C." and its ancillary soundtrack compilations to prime the pump for a buzz-building American tour before the release of ''Young For Eternity" in February. If Saturday's show at Great Scott is anything to go by, consider the buzz built.
It doesn't hurt that the three band members are very young (guitarist Billy Lunn, the oldest, just turned 21) or that Lunn and bassist Charlotte Cooper are very much in love. But rather than tidbits of irrelevant gossip, those two facts became vital elements in the Subways' brash, speedy garage rock. Full of the heedless energy of youth, the band remained in seemingly constant motion as it blazed through 10 songs in 40 minutes, with Lunn and Cooper throwing themselves across the stage to stare each other down briefly in a hyperaccelerated courtship dance.
