The Famines

If packaging alone were enough to win favour with the masses, The Famines would undoubtedly be ahead of the pack. This debut double seven-inch comes with a finely crafted, perfect-bound book that contains, among other things: band name-inspired artwork, button designs, mock newspaper pages and maps of Turkey and Cairo. This isn't a multi-layered record that you'll need to spend time with to fully digest. There are only four songs here, and their make-up is so uncomplicated (as one could reasonably expect from a guitar/drums duo) that it's possible to form an immediate connection. You could comfortably call The Famines anything from punk to garage rock, but their defining aesthetic is in their dated feel. It may just be the vinyl talking, but there's something very 1970s about these guys.