Great British Hopes features the very best bands that make us party like it’s 2011. Oh yes.

Now this is my cup of tea. You play sceptically through tons and tons of mp3s by bands that don’t do very much, and then one will make you sit up and go ‘wow’. Granted, my standards for that aren’t that high. Sound vaguely like Pavement (or a bunch of other 90s bands) and you’re already halfway there. are far better than one lazy comparison.

This is guitar rock just the way I like it. Sloppy sounding through the verses, laced with distortion through the choruses. It jumps about all over the place, in both time and sound, and it’s all the better for it. A wonderfully punchy two minutes from a band I expect to hear a lot more of this year.