The Bug Club return with Every Single Muscle, their fifth album and third for Sub Pop. Written between relentless touring and time back home in Caldicot, it captures Sam (guitar/vocals) and Tilly (bass/vocals) in full-throttle form. Opening salvo Miss Wales 2012 sets the pace: sub-two-minute blasts stacked with wiry riffs, quickfire hooks and the duo’s unmistakable back-and-forth. Across eighteen tracks, they cram in punchy solos (sometimes begrudgingly allowed), elastic guitar interplay and more ideas than most bands manage in twice the runtime. It’s lean but loaded – efficient maximalism with a garage-rock snarl. Fast, funny and fiercely hooked, this is The Bug Club at their most direct – and most tightly wound.