Exploding Eyes – Exploding Eyes album review: Enjoyably high-octane journey

Given their collective past experience, it was unlikely that Exploding Eyes were going re-launch themselves as a synthpop trio. Instead, with members drawn from defunct Dublin garage/psych rock bands The Things, Humanzi and DC Pakt, the supergroup of-sorts stick to what they know best on their debut album.

There's little innovation here, but that subsequently leaves room for guilt-free indulgence in squealing riffs, yelping choruses, echoed vocals and jerky garage-rock wig-outs. The guttural Fear is particularly potent, while Need Somebody draws on influences from the Stones to AC/DC. Hello Mr. Jesus takes a more strident, contemporary angle and Something Critical is bustling, immersive 1960s rock'n'roll mimicry at its finest.

Pioneering? Certainly not, but Exploding Eyes offer an enjoyably high-octane journey via their biggest influences. facebook.com/explodingeyes