The press release for this album rats out the Victory Kid crew as seasoned musicians with an impressive portfolio of session work, as if that matters. It doesn’t need to. You can tell from the first spin that these guys know their shit. It’s in the gleeful skipping from one flavour to another from a smorgasbord of emo-tinged skate punk, ska, pop and rock. It’s in the utterly brilliant musicality of every track. It’s in the fantastic songcraft and production. Discernation really is the album that you wish your favourite band from all those genres had managed to make. Where do you begin with such an embarrassment of riches? Blank Space is classic punk pop that careers through every cliché of the genre: the guitars chug and crash, it’...