Mere months after The Wildhearts score big with the release of Renaissance Men, key tune Diagnosis gets its own day in the sun as the lead on this six-track mini-LP.
Unsurprisingly, the remaining fabulous five are almost all cut from the same sonic cloth as Renaissance Men, though crushing closer LOCAC could easily be a lost effort from Endless Nameless or perhaps Ginger’s Mutation project; compromise isn’t something the band really do and neither does LOCAC, either musically or lyrically.
The other tracks – God Damn, A Song About Drinking, The First Time and That’s My Girl – have all the requisite qualities to elevate them to the top of the Wildhearts canon; they’re fast, funny, honest and immensely hooky.
Yes, they would have been at home on Renaissance Men, but as they were recorded after the fact we get a second wave of joyous noise a few months later. And that’s just fine.
