Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - StickySticky, the new album from Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, is the sonic eruption of a year plus of suppressed energy. While its an escapist experience, recent reality is never too far away. Its there in Go Get A Tattoo, which was inspired by Carters experience of having to shut his first London based tattoo parlour, Rose of Mercy, almost immediately after it opened. Its just as present in My Town, a suburban vignette of societys collective mental

The band has varied tastes but share a love of post-punk greats like Talking Heads

their trajectory was clear: get into the studio and bring the music to the stage

This recording is from a mini concert tour that was in support of what was to be Nesmith's final record on the RCA label

This one’s for the late bloomers

The access to flexible studio time was telling

it's a singularly thrilling performance from start to finish with west's howling vocals and slobbering harmonica work and jones's string-mangling guitar leads ricocheting like pinballs across the tough

Soft Machine

working alongside gruff rhys who produced allergies and cornershop's tjinder singh who has remixed 'food' for a special digital download

arriving on a wave of well-earned hype rooted in tight chops and a confident swagger

The songs mostly concern the events that took place when Vashti and her lover travelled to the Hebrides in a horse and cart to join up with Donovan’s artistic community but by the tiime they got there that community had all left

a seal of quality that was never questioned

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