Wussy - Attica

What a rush! Noisy electric guitar-based rock with multiple vocalists - Lisa Walker (she) and Chuck Cleaver (he), alternating between and within songs - and a heavily strummed countryish streak that's to the fore on songs like "Halloween" and "Gene, I Dream" and sits comfortably alongside the rockier surgers like "Rainbows & Butterflies" and "To The Lightning" which call to mind bands like ... Trail of Dead. The odd airier songs work well too, landing with emphasis along with their lilt - I'm thinking of "North Sea Girls" and closer "Beautiful" ("I'm not the monster that I once was..."). And then of course there's "Teenage Wasteland" at the top. I'd never heard of Wussy before Julian's playlist a few weeks back; they're very impressive.