What a year The Rumble Strips have had. From being tipped by all and sundry as one of the most exciting new bands of 2007 the group have stepped up and delivered. From their explosive shows at SXSW (culminating in Charlie's arrest and jumping bail) to their triumphant headlining of the NME "New Band Tour" in May, the band head into the festival season with an arsenal of songs set to become the soundtrack of the summer.

With "Girls and Weather", The Rumble Strips have recorded a truly classic British debut album. With their somewhat eccentric origins in Devon, the four young men from Tavistock have fashioned a set of songs steeped with huge, life-affirming choruses all awash with the optimism of youth. This is a band whose sound and look is entirely their own: thundering drums and piano, brass to stir the soul and singer Charlie Waller's voice a thing of rare beauty and power suggesting the arrival of a genuine new star.