Introducing...

Rivka Gillieron, Sophie Politowicz and Sarah Bacon perform what are seemingly stripped-down, basic songs, before the sudden diversion of an alien time signature whisks you into a myriad of directions.

Train-track and Evicted owe a little to Wire and The Fall respectively, but Napoleon's Plan and Steal A Car show the latest crop of imitators that original, fresh and vital music can still be recorded with the minimum of expense, and illustrate defiantly how the so-called guiding lights of Franz Ferdinand, The Killers and Maximo Park are merely derivative bores.

In fact, one of the original punks, Vic Godard, was so taken with their performances that Rivka and Sophie now also play in his revamped Subway Sect.

Wet Dog's nine-track CD, clocking in at a smidgeon over 20 minutes, is available from them directly at gigs or by request via email for a modest sum.

Wet Dog appear with Subway Sect tonight at Camden's Dublin Castle and, although their future gigs are chained to the capital, promoters up and down the country should give this mind-blowing band a try.

They also play Barden's Boudoir, Stoke Newington, with Hello Cuca and the Corey M's and a free gig on August 28 at the Spitz, London E1, with the Hot Silk Pockets and Snow White.

You can contact the band at wetdogmusic@gmail.com

LEE McFADDEN