It’s been hard for a while to determine exactly how good or bad Something for Kate actually are.

They write pop music with loud guitars – for most it’s a cataclysm but it’s rarely been disastrous for the Melbourne, Australia trio.

Listening to their new single Cigarettes and Alcohol the first time around I got that impending sense of doom that this was a blowout but I’ve studied the chorus – I mean really studied it – it’s in Dempsey’s vocals. He’s following the guitars and it sounds like he means it.

Their last two albums have largely been dismal shadows of what the band is capable of but this as yet untitled LP due to be released around the end of the financial year. I say the end of the financial year because this band have too often been economical – I want loud clanging and ruckusness – its what guitars were made for.