Rock and roll has many forms and the one drawn up by Perth rockers Shelby & The Neighbours (conveniently shortened to SATN) is bone-crunchingly good. The trio cuts through everything we love about the genre with the mastery of a medievil executor. Steady, clockwork-like rhythm section – check! Inventive, supremely cool chord work? Oh, yeah. And then there are the vocals.

You haven’t heard the kind of raw badassery oozed by singer and guitar player Jules before – just listen to the screams on introductory banger ‘Hello World’ and proceed with the rest of “The Candlestick Maker” if your ears aren’t shattered. The mix of Queens of The Stone Age and Random Screamo Bands works so ear-achingly good that those four 3-minute songs light the room on fire – just as advertised on the EP cover. What matters most is that these guys have forged an original sound, one that can be taken very far given the right circumstances.

Where ‘The Candlestick Maker’ falls a little short is… literally, it’s short! It certainly left us craving more of that Aussie hot-rodded rock that reigns supreme in those brazen four songs. Thankfully, the EP is part of a trilogy, and the previous instalments are available for listening. So you are free to construct your own record from the three raggedy blocks released by SATN so far. Are modular albums like this the future? Nine Inch Nails seem to be doing it, too, so it might just happen! Anyway, SATN are awesome and ‘The Candlestick Maker’ kicks kangaroo butts! If you love rock and don’t mind when it gets a little heavy, you might love this band.