MCCAFFERTY

The House With No Doorbell

INDEPENDENT

Wearing weathered hearts on tattered sleeves, LP3 sees McCafferty strike a stunning balance between the raw, visceral emotional fervour that defined their early days, and the ear-crushing brand of fiery, fist-in-the-air energy that made last year’s Yarn such a head-turner. Gracefully weaving around his homey, yet palpably strained vocals,

Nick Hartkopt’s fretwork is astounding – he pulls every punch he knows across the LP’s tight 30 minutes, showcasing everything from squeaky clean acoustic prings to punchy, overdriven Telecaster chaos. The album came together unusually fast, but you’d never know; the songs are sharp, witty and colossally catchy, and the production is next-level good. However tumultuous McCafferty’s trajectory has been, Doorbell shines as a definitive high point.