However, where their debut veered into pastiche, their follow-up subtly modernises their sound — there’s a pleasingly contemporary feel to Certainty’s synth stabs and rubbery bass.
Better still, while frontman James Bagshaw has kept the Marc Bolan barnet, he’s ditched the cod-mystical lyricism.
The result is that Volcano sounds like an album with a reverence for the past but a relevance in the present, erupting throughout with ideas and ambition.
