The world has changed plenty in the last four years, and it appears that Aerial Salad have changed along with it. On their February 2020 debut album Dirt Mall, the Manc trio slotted into a continuum of perkily melodic Britpunk going back to the ‘80s. This time round, things are rather different, as demonstrated immediately by the spidery post-punk guitar figure that runs through R.O.I.’s opener Rottin’ N Shakin’. Elsewhere, the degenerate funk of All Yer Dreamin’ sounds like nothing so much as early Happy Mondays, while Big Business rides a deceptively tricksy riff into a splurge of big rock energy. Aerial Salad’s progression might be unexpected, but it isn’t entirely without precedent. The insistent basslines of Tied To Pieces Of Paper and John recall onetime har...