The first song on this CD, 'HEX', bursts into the room awkwardly and unleashes the typical Garrett sound of intelligent and quirky art-punk-noise. It's fast, crazed and crammed with energy. I've always been really attracted to the little details that this band put in their songs to really give their sound an edge: like the skipped beat on the drums at the beginning, or on 'The Support' where a guitar fidgets instead of doing a solo - which would've been done if the guitarist wasn't so intent on being modest and instead stomps on a Boss DM-2 with its intensity and d. level turned up full. The energy of this band seeps through and if you're not singing along/moving to the angular rhythms and the spiteful lyrics then you soon will be.

The third and final track, 'Arch Standard', comes across really cold - possibly sounding like what 'Murray Street' would've sounded like if Sonic Youth lived in Luton. It twinkles, it croons, it arches and it caves. "Our life is frosted on our window". It's probably one of my favourite Garrett tracks - there's so many different moments and styles employed through the song. Guitars chug and charge then twinkle and dance. It never gets boring. Which, I think, sums up Garrett precisely. Never once have I been uninterested or bored by these guys. I think they see music as something really special (thank god) and what's even better is they use this to their advantage musically.

They've written some fucking blinding songs. Go out and see these guys, get a CD and start worshipping.

Craig Sharp

Garrett's website