A few nights ago, bored of street press and the overly wordy books I seem to prefer when at the bookshop (but hate when I get them home), I had a read of the lyric sheet for 6s & 7s’ Choose The Sentinel Blooze LP. I really only did this out of boredom, but it turns out that Josh Fontaine, their frontman, is something of a genius wonderboy. If you have room in your album collection for a beach boys-ish record with sunny harmonies that mask lyrics so disarmingly raw they actually made me flinch when reading them, you should check this out. I’ve very little doubt it will place towards the top of my end of year top 10 list for Drum.

Last night I should have gone to his launch but didn’t. Luckily an old friend of mine, Senor Thommo, was there with his handycam and got this footage. Now I really wish I’d gone.