County Galway (Ireland) trio Oh Boland have always been able to batter the aural senses into absolute submission and eventual appreciation and their third Western Leisure album (out Safe Suburban Home and Meritorio Records) shows that there is no intent, or indeed need, to change such as musical modus operandi just yet such is the sense of exhilaration each listen provides.

Always offering a verve that has amateur music hacks like me looking for words to express their dynamism, tracks best represented by Grass Walls, the gloriously named The Cult Of A Western Rail Operator, Spectatoring, and Western Leisure Pt.2 (Rent-Strike-Mid.-Afternoon) marry an indie rock intensity that is akin to the Dehd sound to shambolic jangle rock and an Aluminum-influenced spiky post-punk persuasion to provide a much-needed zest of originality to our favourite genre.

Here Comes The Order of Malta, (No More) Soft Talk, Bishop Street, and A Power of Wides slide faux jangled riffs into the big crushed power sounds of recent acts such as Jim Nothing and Mo Troper into the shambol to provide all manner of brilliant jangled/power-pop obtuse. Imagine Teenage Fanclub declaring “F#!k it, Let’s Go,” and you may well be in the right musical ballpark.

Post-punk edged jangle-punk at is very finest.

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