It doesn’t take many words in a review of these five shabbily-groomed Londoners to name-check some pre and post-grunge influences: Dinosaur Jr and Teenage Fanclub usually crop up, as they have here, in the first paragraph.

What the second wave Converse-gazers demonstrate at their sold-out Stereo show is that there is more than pure wistfulness in their hazy craft.

While their eponymous debut album is frontloaded with tracks that cut this grungy jib – blushing melodies jostling with rusting guitars – their live show favours them the freedom to scatter these scuzzy anthems throughout the night.

This feels less exhausting than their album and gives latitude for the denizens of the NME and BBC Sound Of 2011 to parade their off-kilter take on what Red House Painters might sound like with My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields on guitar.

The audience are equally split between those old enough to remember J Mascis before he went to seed and those whose parents met at one of his gigs in 1989. Both love it when Yuck get into the nubile riff of Operation – a respectful nod to Sonic Youth’s Teen Age Riot. The single Georgia is another fuzzy peak and the quintet leave us with a set of remarkably unsullied tunes for an act supposedly trading so heavily in plaid-clad nostalgia.

Review by Dave Potter