Dinosaur Pile-Up – Traynor

It’s almost reassuring to know that, despite all the sonic/creative/technological innovations that some bands spend an entire career grappling with in the admirable aim of edging the artform of music that little bit further forward, there will always be bands like Dinosaur Pile-Up; bands who simply want to make a noise and have fun. Traynor singularly fails to bring anything new to the punk-rock table – it’s basically a metal-by-numbers din of brutish guitar riffs and fuzzy fingerwork – but you still have to smile in acknowledgment of the fact that Dinosaur Pile-Up are perfectly happy in their fossilised state. [Nick Mitchell]