Very apt title from the new EP by this high-intensity Glasgow band as they come up with four powerful tracks which display passion, conviction, drive and strength from start to finish. The opening track is “Idle Talk” and right from the start you know this is a band who means business as they combine the intensity and urgency of contemporary Scottish indie bands into something that's in no way watered down – no disco beats, no pop compromises, no cliches, no hooks and no choruses - instead it's a total wall of glorious guitars-driven songwriting where the vocalist soars through the song with immense emotion as the drums fall over themselves in the rush as the bass pounds away on top and the sound of the electric guitar is as dense as it is heated, the whole thing rising and falling to dramatic effect and one headlong adrenaline rush to your soul, a rush that segues right into “Holes” as the band, via a distant guitar wail, gently pounding bass and militaristic drums, let fly a searing heat guitar riff, the rhythm section begins to drive and now the vocal is more “traditional”, delivering the song with passionate strength as the storm gathers, the band's intensity level rises, the guitars range from that chiming, red hot lead to more amorphous textures. The density drops back for the verses as the singer lets loose a well written observational lyric and the band hots up for what is the closest thing to a chorus that they've managed so far, but it's the sheer solid strength of the band and singer which really takes hold and carries you along in its wake. There's a brief turn from the pressure but that's as brief a respite as you get when the band and singer then turn up the heat and a huge tidal wave of wordless vocals, guitars, crashing drums and bass see the piece out. “Voiceover” starts more sedately, if anything, almost lulling you into a false sense of security before the anticipated band heat is unleashed, only this time everything is held back, creating this supreme sense of serene tension in the singing, the delivery, the arrangement and the playing. The track then builds as the vocals really lift off, the guitars circle round like vultures as the rhythm section propels, underpins and stabilises the piece. Once again, it all drops back only then to flare up in this supernova of guitars, crunchy drums and upfront rumbling bass, the singer really letting rip as yet again, despite the absence of any verse-hook-chorus structure, the whole thing proves to be absolutely riveting. Finally, there's “Hum”, a huge sounding lurch of a track, where the singer flies over the chiming, ringing, riffing guitar density and the rhythm section drive this cyclical crunch of beats and splashing cymbals onwards and upwards as the overall density joins the searing heat guitar clarity on a piece that climbs up and up, slowly but surely, with guitar tones all over the show as the intensity and power are turned up to eleven and the whole track takes off like a rocket on fire with vocals, guitars and rhythm section as this massive wall of sound, the piece refuses to stop, goes on and on and almost Velvets-meets-Can style to it, the only drawback being you wished it could have lasted about three times longer than it does. Overall, though, this is a modern indie band really breaking down the barriers, reinventing invention and throwing convention out the window, the surprising result being songs that are about as far away from traditionally commercial as you might get but which, at the same time, have an undoubted widespread appeal to an equally wide-ranging audience.