Add to playlist: Panic Shack’s gleeful anarchy and this week’s best new tracks

The upstarts from Cardiff’s underground are a fizzy, riffy, irreverently hilarious bundle of buzzsaw guitars, vim and vinegar

From Cardiff, Wales
Recommended if you like Lambrini Girls, Amyl and the Sniffers, Kleenex/Lilliput
Up next Playing Beautiful Days festival, Fairmile, Devon, 14 August and touring the UK in October

Across seven years, cheekily raucous quartet Panic Shack have gone from the Cardiff underground to the fringes of the mainstream. After forming as a raised middle finger to snooty blokey indie bands “fiddling with their pedals with a face like a slapped arse”, their self-titled debut crashed into the Top 40 last month and topped the UK rock and metal albums chart.