If you like succinct reviews, read the next sentence and then go on with your business. This is a sublime album and you really should buy it. If you’re interested in why we consider this to be the case, read on. In The Cheats, Dan has assembled a band from the fragments of previous outfits he has been associated with (Screeching Weasel, The Riverdales, The Methadones, Noise By Numbers, The Vindictives, Sludgeworth and The Bomb). This not only gives a clue about Dan‘s productivity but also indicates that he’s amongst friends in creating his vision. This vision, as realised in Escape Velocity, is to nothing less than to capture singular aspects of the human condition and express them as flawlessly crafted power-pop songs. While the themes are universal, this is a quintessen...