CD - Jake Bugg

Noel Gallagher and The Stone Roses saw in Jake Bugg what the rest of us finally tuned into during the second half of 2012 when both acts enlisted him to support them on tour at just 18 years old.

The tawdry teenager’s music compliments these pioneers of the ‘Madchester Movement’, writing and playing whatever it is he wants, not what a record exec wants him to sell, and the potency packs a punch.

Inspired by the mean streets of Nottingham (specifically Clifton, at a guess), Bugg pairs his at once crashing and melodic guitar with not overbearing but youthfully stirring anti-authority and mild drug references.

Lots of fun.

The Bob Dylan and Gallagher comparisons hold up and Bugg, thankfully, doesn’t seem the type to sell out-he’ll be turning out albums like this decades after those identikit ‘singer songwriter’ berks from X Factor have returned to their day jobs.