Bling Bling Baby EP

This would generally be the season when the new, interesting bands give up and leave it to the big guns to slug it out for the Christmas number one. Milk Kan, however, sound as if they like a challenge, as well as a good scrap. Others have made this point, but ‘Bling Bling Baby’ really does sound like The Streets rewriting ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’, before veering off down a punk rock alleyway. ‘Real Fake World’, meanwhile, bounces along like Billy Bragg fronting the Clash and ‘Kill All A&R Men’ sounds exactly like you might suppose it does. It’s ridiculously early to be talking about the next Arctic Monkeys I know, but Milk Kan are already looking like they could provide us with a lot of interesting times in the year ahead.