Pete Laurie, Journalist

It sounds like the Pet Shop Boys still have all the same instruments and gadgets they’ve been using for almost three decades, but at the same time, there’s nothing overly derivative, old fashioned or cheesy about Electric.

Monster Truck is an unapologetic powerhouse of the old school and Furiosity is an unapologetic powerhouse of an album that will remind you how fun music can be when a band worries less about being important and more about the rock.

Salvia Plath’s The Bardo Story is a little folky, a little psychedelic, a little of all sorts of things. But in the end, it’s not a lot of very much.

Grunwald’s vocals aren’t always quite up to the growl he attempts, but the passion is real, and that’s what matters.

"All of a sudden, 40 minutes are gone and Slow Summits’ last track is fading out. You might not remember much, but you’ll have a nice, warm feeling."

Hopefully he’s right, because if kids are ready for this shit, the world is in some real trouble.

The title track is the most stripped down and effective, with simple, powerful guitars, tight, assaulting drumming and throat-tearing vocals. But in the end, these are too few short moments of relief almost buried within the white noise of artificiality.

For all its rule breaking and genre stretching, In A Warzone works best when Transplants stay within their comfort zone, delivering punk rock at its most unpretentious and uncomplicated.