Branded, The
The Branded
Swedens new garage-rock kings have a debut album that delivers everything you want from a style-conscious, but not nostalgic retro band - pulverising guitars, screeching, snotty caveman singing, maximum grooving and guaranteed male chauvinistic lyrics. The Troggs, Namelosers and Bo Diddley are key words in this fuzz-crossword puzzle. But their influences are so cleverly dissected and reconstructed that you will just find yourself dancing (and sweating) in front of your gramophone.