Like a feral landlord clearing his premises of metal fans, Cardiff’s Brandyman are heavy, righteous and slightly scary. It’s not totally a metaphor either: Brandyman do sound a bit like a feral landlord clearing his premises of metal fans. Much of this is down to the vocal work of DC Gates, also of Gindrinker, who hawks up deserving bile like some shrieking moral compass. He rides on top of music that’s dense and weighty with guitar lines, riffs that flip from metal to post rock to rock in the face pretty quickly. Lyrical subjects include crashing fighter pilots, unwelcome visitors to the house and uncles with carnal knowledge of Joan Jett. They’ve featured members of Joy Of Sex and Survivalists in the past; the current roster of DC, Ben (ex-FTSE100/Truckers Of Husk), Alex (The Death Of Her Money) and Carl (Shaped By Fate) remains crushingly loud and bleakly funny. An Adam Walton session is out there to download; there’s a ZZ Top cover somewhere too. You don’t deserve them.

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