The Paddingtons mainline enough four-chord adrenalin to keep the kids pogo-hopping like they’re at a Green Day concert.

But the Hull band stand apart from most of their post-Libertines brethren with a penchant for transforming sour emotion into sinister fantasy.

On No Mundane Options, the band’s second album, there’s enough mayhem and murder to satisfy any Scarface groupie. Singer Tom Atkin kicks things off with the ghoulish ditty ‘Punk RIP’, which begs for a thousand teenagers to sing along. ‘Shame about Elle’ is a Pixies-esque track about a dead cat; ‘What’s The Point In Anything New’ about the frustration with major recording labels. ‘You and I’ brings a change of pace where Atkins sounds like he’s barely hanging on. “You and I, we are not meant to be, even though I really tried,” he rasps.

The Paddingtons are not out to break ground, as much as to perfect a sound they consider timeless - and on portions of No Mundane Options, they nail it.

Chris Purnell