Sleaford Mods: Divide & Exit

A welcome smack in the chops amid all that relentless Britpop nostalgia, Sleaford Mods are the boys with the blackstuff. Prolific Nottingham duo Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn provide the words and music, respectively, for this searing, angry, sometimes hilarious portrait of life in an austerity-ridden economy. It's a page from a book already thumbed by The Streets, Happy Mondays (there's a pungent bang of Shaun Ryder in Williamson's rambles) and John Cooper Clarke, but such tomes always have plenty to give if you know where to look. The Mods do, delivering fierce polemical diatribes on everything from politics to breakfast cereals (they certainly had their Weetabix on Tied Up in Nottz) to musical peers (A Little Ditty). All of it comes with an avalanche of injokes, scatological humour and shambling, rudimentary beats. The sound of fervently uncool Britannia. sleafordmods.com

Download: Tied Up in Nottz, A Little Ditty