Coconut

Not that anyone has been counting, but it’s been four years since last we heard from Domino makeweights the Archie Bronson Outfit. Recorded with the DFA’s James Goldsworthy, Coconut is darker and less self-consciously ‘quirky’ than the trio’s earlier albums: ‘Shark’s Tooth’ is a shuddering psychedelic onslaught; ‘Wild Strawberries’ sounds like kindred garage revivalists The Horrors striving to be heard from beneath a tumult of distortion. Alas, it quickly sinks into a soggy meander – by the time closer ‘Run Gospel Singer’ comes around, you’ll probably have lost interest. It certainly sounds as if the Archie Bronson Outfit have.