Summer Cannibals – Full of It

The Portland band arrive on this, their third album. A ferocious – and ferociously cerebral – collection, these 11 songs rattle your sternum while messing with your mind. This time around, singer Jessica Boudreaux's songs retain the garage tradition and filthy grooves of her band's earlier work but amidst the bombast – and Summer Cannibals are a genuinely threatening force – lies a thoughtful and intelligent lyrical profile.

If you're the subject of the likes of Talk Over Me ('It's not just how you talk over me, it's… everything') or Go Home, which spits and snarls like prime Babes in Toyland, heaven help you. Every one of these songs is a rough-hewn diamond but the sweet-sour nu-grunge of Fallen is a dizzying stand-out. No wonder Kill Rock Stars were so keen to land them: Summer Cannibals' hard-rocking but politically astute manifesto was made for that most savvy of labels. They deserve to be stars: let's help them with that.