While we’re more than partial to a bit of artistic soul-searching, wrath and pain, there’s a place in The Fly’s heart for glorious escapism too. As long as it’s done cleverly. This is where Max McElligott, aka Wolf Gang, pops up and waves hello, as ‘Suego Faults’ has dreamy summer soundtrack scrawled all over it (in big dollops of factor 50). Instantly infectious and propelled by the kind of shimmering synths and hooks MGMT used to do so well, the debut hits us like a deluge of sonic kisses; ‘Lions In Cages’, ‘Something Unusual’, ‘Stay And Defend’ and ‘The King And All Of His Men’ all among the record’s most buoyantly pop-tastic offerings, with ‘Dancing With The Devil’ almost tipping us into Scissor Sisters territory – woah there Wolf Gang. Most impressively though, when he slows the tempo, loses the reverb and goes to the sad place with a piano, such as on ‘Midnight Dancers’, ‘Planets’ and the album’s title track, McElligott’s songs sound a whole lot like classic early Elton John. All real emotion and punch the air melodies minus the hair-piece ‘n’ wacky specs.

Camilla Pia