Moping around the house awkwardly, subversive literature in hand as might Mark E. Smith have done during one of Manchester’s many wet weekends, Hull four-piece Autosuggestion are the latest flagbearers of the neo post-punk movement, shadowy focal point Jacob Evison perfectly cast in the gruff anti-frontman role. Forming over a shared love of the likes of Iceage and having shared stages with the likes of The Murder Capital since, Deadpan / A New Slow was produced by Craig Johnson of Autobahn and mastered by go-to punk engineer Joe Caithness, who keeps things raw and exciting, exactly how a band like Autosuggestion need to be handled. With Ian McCulloch‘s lyricism and Joe Casey‘s delivery, Evison’s Gothic howl carries surging melodies to new places, textural gloom and intense drums...