An Emotional Fish: “Superman EP” (Warner/Blue)

Pretty much like Something Happens – just as it seems their music industry career has taken a backwards step, An Emotional Fish have begun to make the best musicof their lives. The Superman EP features the reflective and melancholic but graceful ‘Superman’ and the caustic ‘Happy Families’, which takes a cutting glance at suburban bourgeois city life. There’s also a nod to Irish rock history in the covers of Phil Lynnot’s ‘Dublin’ and ‘Frankie Carrol’.