Where some listeners will come unstuck will be the 'funny ones', which depend somewhat on your tolerance for mini-sketches and daft one-liners stuck in records. Best of all is 'Food', it's the kind of cheeky popcore Kenickie used to make before Lauren Laverne got all talky on us. Opener 'Allergies' is as good a slice of grungey new wave as you'll find anywhere while 'Green Beans' is built around a primitive riff worthy of the White Stripes. What's more they can really nail a proper pop tune. Behind the sweetness and the skits Lovely Eggs make a bloody racket, informed by 90's US alt punks like Mudhoney and Hole with the wit of Magnetic Fields and and the manners of Hilda Ogden.

And if that all sounds a little bit tweecore, singer/guitarist Ross is far too fond of her distortion pedal to let things go too far in the direction of cupcakes and Etsy handbags. The Lovely Eggs are very much a world view - singing in their own accent, writing lyrics about dinner, animals, boyfriends, teeth, scooters and tempering their odder tendencies with a strong working class aesthetic and a home-made, DIY ethos. Anyone who's encountered the duo of Holly Ross and David Blackwell before will have a pretty fair idea of what's coming here - it's more of the same following 2009's If You Were Fruit and 2011's Cob Dominos - while for newcomers this is as good a place to jump on board as any. Lancashire's Lovely Eggs return with a third album stuffed with hooky charm, weirdo skits and knockabout Ramones-meet-Jilted-John razor punk.

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