Ten Stones makes perfect sense when you learn American David Eugene Edwards – a.k.a Woven Hand - had a strict religious upbringing, his grandfather working as a travelling Nazarene preacher.

From opener ‘The Beautiful Axe’, which descends like the angel of death, to the god-fearing ‘His Loyal Love’, the ex-16 Horsepower frontman has produced 10 songs of fearsome, apocalyptic beauty.

The thrilling rock of ‘Not One Stone’ is particularly powerful, as is the unbearably intense ‘White Knuckle Grip’, a stomping, droning drive to hell and back. “It might have been a Cadillac, yeah or maybe a Lincoln” Edwards howls, judgement day suddenly seeming a lot closer.

Compared to this, Nick Cave sounds like a frigging nursery school teacher. The unrelenting pace slows on ‘Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars’, Edwards combining the sumptuous romance of late 60s-Scott Walker with the grandiosity of Echo & the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch. An exhilarating and adult record, Ten Stones will be converting listeners for years to come.