Get yourself a nice bunch of flowers, put them in a lovely vase, maybe find a picture of a favourite aunt or cute kitten and leave that somewhere in your field of vision, turn the lights on, open a window to get some fresh spring air in, and just spend a couple of minutes thinking happy thoughts before slotting this CD from Essex noisemakers Engerica into your CD player. The cheery title, happy-go-lucky noose design on the cover and laugh-a-minute track titles (The Smell, It Was A Goddamn Suicide!, Funeral Song and Arsehole being some of the more blithe) give us the hint that you might need to spend a bit of time making everything sweetness, light and roses again once you've had a listen. But you'd be wrong.

Rather than being the sludgy kind of metal that everything cosmetic about the album suggests, this is in fact a spiky, fun collection of anthemic power guitar tunes torn through by a band whose infectious energy and crazy approach to song and lyric writing can't help but please. Shades of Big Dumb Face and FANToMAS abound in the quirkier vocal and lyrical touches but there's much more of a melodic, listenable vibe than each - and the track titles are misleadingly depressing, given that songs such as The Smell and Funeral Song are quick bursts of infectious Sum 41-style poppy, punky rock. Buy this album, but maybe take the inner sleeve out and stick some pictures of skateboarders on the jewel case instead.