Mandance

From the ashes of Red Lunacy come the excellently named Torture Artists Social Club, who describe themselves as “dirty rock with a conscience”. Well, the conscience has yet to be proven but the dirty rock is there in tractor loads. Their debut single throws in as much reference to retro acts like Free and The Black Crowes as it does to their own imagination. Shame that the great ideas in it aren’t given enough life and room to draw out their strengths – ‘ManDance’ is unnecessarily forgettable – but it’s early days for ‘em yet.