Can't believe how long it is since I first encountered this band and what an amzing trip it's been, hearing them evolve from this seriously moody mob to a band that's got excitement, vitality, commercial potential and solid indie-rock, oozing from every pore. In a live set that boasts a host of great songs, this is just the recorded evidemnce of three of them - and it rocks!! The opener and title track opens with briefly strummed guitar chords before the bass and drums crash in and drive ahead as the guitar storms out and then lays back to allow the impassioned vocals to nter the fray, this soaring lead vocal briefly joined by backing harmonies as the whole song shoots forward in a blaze of addictive appeal, switching between red hot indie power and tasty song-based dynamics, complete with a hook large enough to catch a whale. Short, sharp and superb. But if that was good, "Nicola" is sensational, a similarly paced song only with more urgent sounding vocals sung in that powerful nasally tone that positively flies as the guitar chords rise and fall in a sea of solid, expansive guitar-drenched leads and rhythms, the drums crashing onwards as the bass comes upfront and really lets loose. Almost rock'n' roll, it's a slice of driving indie tension, ultimately catchy as hell, and that immediately sinks its teeth into your head and refuses to let go. Finally, "Gipsy Girl" is more of a driving lurcher of a song with this ringing guitar riff scything across the skies as the rhythm section crunch away and the vocalist provides another slice of passion-fuelled delivery over a backing that is instantly catchy, sensibly dancey, commercially tight and positive indie nirvana. Three tracks you simply won't get out of your head the more you play them, and that's gotta be a good thing.