TheWallflowers

Album Jakob Dylan has a rather famous dad. The weird thing is, their sound owes less to Bob Dylan and much more to another US rock totem, Bruce Springsteen. Indeed, their first album after a five-year hiatus sounds like a Boss tribute band.

There are rambling narratives about whisky and courthouses, about driving down boulevards, about love being a country better crossed when you’re young – all delivered in the same breathless, gravelly baritone and with the same organ/piano interplay used by The E Street Band.

The one exception is Reboot The Mission, which sounds so close to Combat Rock-era Clash that you think Mick Jones might sue, until you realise he’s actually guesting on vocals and guitar