Menace Beach @ Broadcast, Glasgow, 14 Feb

It's not often that a band will acknowledge that they've been upstaged by their support act, but Menace Beach are a humble bunch. Midway through their set they stop to thank LUCIA, who earlier gave a vibrant run through of new EP Best Boy despite playing to a patchy crowd – "they were better than us," asserts Menace Beach co-leader Ryan Needham.

That's not to say that the Leeds-based five-piece don't dish out a solid performance of their own. Touring in support of their new record Lemon Memory tonight is a toe-tapping foray through fuzzy distorted guitars, brutalised riffs and surf-garage melodies. The grunge style that characterised their 2015 release Ratworld is still there (oldie Drop Outs reminds us that the band wear their influences, in this case Pavement, visibly on their sleeves) but the new material puts a sharper focus on Liza Violet’s dreamy vocals and synth-generated woozy Wurlitzer organ effects.

Sentimental is introduced after Needham thanks the crowd for "sharing Valentine's Day with us" – "ya soppy bastard!" comes the rejoinder from the depths of the audience – while Maybe We'll Drown delves further into the eerie, ominous tones and thudding beats that Lemon Memory explores. Menace Beach are a band of competent musicians and they deliver technically proficient show, but a group is only as good as their material, and much like their new album, there's not quite enough here for the performance to linger long in your memory.