Continuing this year’s trend that every record released this year by a British band must contain a Northern-Eastern accent, The Night Don Benito Saved My Life is the second album by Sunderland’s This Aint Vegas. Live, there always has been something that wasn’t quite right with them, but having heard this record it now all makes sense. Their songs are concise and direct, generating eleven tracks of short (well-ish) sharp proper angular punk songs. But this is more than punk. There’s thought behind the multilayered guitar lines and breaks between the vocals and songs that develop and change. There’s a rich texture, the way that the songs can go from noisy and crowded to gently bubbling from one part to the next, that doesn’t immediately come across during the live shows, making an album that’s well worth sitting down and listening to.

While everyone’s been obsessed with post punk, This Aint Vegas are taking it one step further. Mixing in the angular guitars that are everywhere, with the lo-fi punk attitudes of bands like Fugazi. They have managed to make a hardcore/postrock/punk album that’s great to listen to, and you won’t end up with a headache.