On Baby Criminal, the opening song on Viagra Boys’ third album, frontman Sebastian Murphy sings about a character, little Jimmy, who ‘Spent his time in the kitchen microwaving batteries… he even killed a squirrel and turned it into a hat. Into a hat!’ Just like that, within the space of a minute, the Swedish quintet hook the listener in to their strange and wonderful Cave World. Even in these four little lines, there’s so much to like that it’s difficult to know quite where to begin. The vividness of the imagery, the specifics of the wrongdoing, the sense of surprise from the songwriters’ themselves – ‘into a hat!’ – all of it is perfectly brilliant. Cave World is an album brimming not just with colour and life, but also with a sense of strik...