LIGHTNING BOLT

Sonic Citadel Thrill JOCKEY

Rhode Island two-piece expand upon the joys of noise

Sonic Citadel highlights how bassist Brian Gibson and drummer/vocalist

Brian Chippendale’s bastardisation of pleasing, cogent melodies clicks. Subtract the effects, decibel-meter magnitude and hummingbird-wing battery and you have preschoolers’ circle time singalong material: an endearing characteristic that hasn’t been exploited this adroitly since 2001’s

Ride The Skies. Blow To The Head starts the album by covering noise rock with yellow, happy face stickers.

USA Is A Psycho playfully bats 70s rock around like a cat does a ball of string via transistorised nursery rhyme chants. Hüsker

Dön’t successfully tackles conventional songwriting and singing, while Air Conditioning tempers fury with staccato space for the meanest rainbow-coloured monolith of the pair’s discography. Seven albums in and the Brians have refined and expanded their skills to create an unstoppable triumph with across-the-board appeal to nappied toddlers and avantgarde beard-strokers alike. ■■■■■■■■■■

FOR FANS OF: Meltbanana, Boredoms, Daughters

CONNIE GORDON