The 4/5s - White Russian EP

The title track of this debut EP by Glasgow's 4/5s deservedly won a listeners' vote on XFM Scotland recently, and the rest of the songs show similar promise. Summer of Love and Bad Things are full of new wave bravado, baggy swagger and are laden with cool hooks, but it's on final track Omerta that the band truly excel. It's a bit of a departure from the straightforward indie rock of the other tracks, where space-age synth parts and spoken samples are thrown into the mix to create an atmospheric, almost psychedelic mantra that goes on for five minutes but could easily groove on for half an hour or more. Impressive stuff that hints at even better things to come. [Graeme Blaikie]