Standard Fare - Out of Sight, Out of Town

(Melodic)

Sheffield’s Standard Fare are putting their childhood rehearsal sessions in their grandparent’s living rooms to fruitful use in adulthood. They have become a loveable power-pop trio whose second album, Out of Sight, Out of Town, is a raucous and thrilling indie ride.

Emma Cooper (daughter of Bella Donna, bassist in 80s anarcho-punks Poison Girls) is a compelling vocalist – by turns laidback, heartbreaking and riled – and Standard Fare’s songs are equally ardent, as evinced by the brassy swoons and brawny guitars of ‘051107’, the laid-back alt-rock of ‘Darth Vader’ and the au courant axe-pop of ‘Older Women’. Ace.