What you gotta love about this Dundee band's songs is the way they throw the rule book out the window and come up with songs that are the most angular examples of addictive popular appeal around today. Throughout the band's songs, there's always action as chords, notes, riffs, leads, rhythms and more splinter off in all directions and then rush headlong as one towards a peak that's positively awesome. Things open with “Take A Life Away” as the band supply a guitars-fuelled ride through waves of surging riffing, chiming rhythm guitar, strong guitar undercurrents and ringing leads. The production is immaculate as the bass underpins it all, comes to the surface on the odd occasion, then dives down once again, while the drumming remains the rocket fuel, the propulsion that steers the vessel through. Above this, the male vocal provides the consummate mix of emotion, anguished singing and restrained holler, the lead vocals complemented by shards of counterpoint and harmony vocals that come out at all angles. The arrangement moves through a variety of moods and paces, taking you along in its wake, a world of sound where everything is clear yet it's all this glorious wall of indie distraction, the guitars spiralling upwards and rifling through, melody at the heart of the beast and rhythmic variation in the engine room. There's no-one else doing it like this. “Meditation 7” starts with a wicked band-played stop-start riff before the bass suddenly sidles to the top as the rifling riffs continue, brief burst of guitar, then bass, all herald a deceleration in intensity as the emotive, slowly unfolding vocals provide the harmony-laden verse, between which brief flares of riffs and delicately chiming guitar then take us into this storm as the verse ups the anti, the band increase the tension, the vocals soar upwards once more, taut yet emotional, while the guitars are now sparking out at all angles as the drumming pounds away, the bass becomes the fulcrum and the vocals fly. The instruments manage simultaneously to fly apart yet join as one in this amazing arrangement where traditional commerciality flies out the window to be replaced by this jaw-dropping heat as the band refuse to let anything stand still or repeat for even the merest of moments. “Opinions (We've Got Our Rights)” allows the more thoughtful lyrical writing to come to its own as the song lights up, a suitably emotive lead vocal joined by taut harmonies as the dual vocal-led song courses forward as the band drives a huge tidal wave of riffs and rhythms underneath, again the varied arrangement full of stop-start rhythms and driving riffs, before the instrumental mid-song break powers up and a sea of dual lead guitars comes into its own as they spark off each other then join together in a wildly riffing mass above a strong rhythmic current as the band are driven back to the song itself, more anguished vocal then leading into a brief moment of delicacy with ringing guitars before all of a sudden we are plunged into a another break where the two lead guitars, individually and collectively, just take off to the skies and spiral out of sight. Finally, “Thirteen” ends the EP with another stunner of a song, this time a more twangy accented vocal providing a hint of Twin Atlantic, on a song that really hits the spot as the band twist and turn, rifle and riff, guitars leads coming off like sparks, as the song just surges ahead to deliciously powerful degree and the whole thing rolls along like some new-world order indie anthem, the effect absolutely mesmerising as band, vocals, arrangement, harmonies and production all combine to provide as fantastic a closing anthem to a contemporary indie band's EP as you'll get – then it's gone – and all you want to do is play it all again.