Album Review: Band Of Skulls - By Default

British three-piece Band Of Skulls have found another swag of blues-ridden rock ditties to dole out, less than two years after 2014's Himalayan.

By Default picks up where their previous effort left off, with a move in a more refined, organised direction. There's still plenty of the usual swagger throughout that comes bursting out of the gate with opener Black Magic, with its ratatat snare and guitar twangs, but a bit of playful pop rock in Back Of Beyond and a bit of sparseness on Bodies and suave single Killer adds some much needed variety to the Band Of Skulls sound.