Video – The Entertainers

“I will achieve and fulfill my destiny!” snarls Daniel Fried. Can’t fault his conviction, that’s for sure – not content with releasing some of the best gritty power pop in recent memory with Radioactivity and Mind Spiders, he returns to this garage rock outfit for a second album via Jack White’s label. Know what? This ain’t bad either.

The Entertainers suggests Fried (playing under his ‘TV’s Daniel’ pseudonym) owns some pretty good records: hints of Hot Snakes and New Bomb Turks pepper the likes of New Immortals, draping post-hardcore angularity all over their too-punk-to-suck sass. Muddy psych-blue grooves and a new wave shimmy also rear their heads on occasion, keeping things nice’n’spiky just when you think you’ve got ‘em pegged. The only thing missing, annoyingly, is truly essential songs – it's all enjoyable enough, but there’s little to get you scrabbling for the repeat button. Still worth your time, mind. [Will Fitzpatrick]