Last year’s Fat Possum signings Bass Drum of Death released their storming, fuzzy debut LP GB City late last year - a tremolo’d, distorted exploration through the imagination and talents of Oxford, MS-based band leader (and former Fat Possum employee) John Barrett.

Now a two-piece, with Barrett freed from the drumkit, the chords can be dirtier and messier, the vocals can be wrought more forcefully from a blown-out larynx, and the percussion can expand beyond the restrictions of Barrett’s single bass drum (that, incidentally, lent its name to the band). There are elements of the punk kickstarters MC5 and The Stooges, but mostly in the guile and delivery - the melodies are all Phil Spector, and the instrument treatment is of a Jesus and Mary Chain schooling: distorted, pounding and hooky in equal measure.

“This record is the soundtrack playing in your head when you’re fucked up and walking home in the middle of the night” claim Fat Possum. Though we haven’t put this theory to the test yet, we are inclined to believe them.