Joyride The Pale Horse, the fourth album by Heart Attack Man, begins at the end. Or at least an imagined finale. Opening song One More Song combines a vivid sense of self-doubt and imposter syndrome with an equally primal dread about death and dying. It’s a ferocious start that sets the Cleveland trio’s modus operandi for what follows – which is to say, 30-ish minutes of dark thoughts soundtracked by gritty pop-punk. The grittiness is important. In a genre that has so often celebrated mediocrity – and which, as a result, has spawned endless watered-down copycat after watered-down copycat – Heart Attack Man don’t just peddle anaemic dross. There are definite shades of Sum 41’s Fat Lip in One More Song, for instance but it there’s more throat, heavier riffs and it h...