Sacred Paws make hopped-up indie-pop that is good for your head, heart and gyrating hips. Watch them kick up a right old fuss when they play Newcastle this May.

Glasgow post-punks Ray Aggs and Eilidh Rodgers hit the ground running when they released ‘Strike a Match’, their 2017 debut album. It was a release stuffed with cascading riffs and rhythms that mixed glorious indie-pop tunes and Afro highlife sounds to grandstanding effect (they won The Scottish Album of the Year gong for it). They followed it with 2019’s ‘Run Around The Sun’, another release which cemented the pair’s uncanny ability to pen memorable melodies. Now, after something of a hiatus, they’re back with their latest album ‘Jump Into Life’. And – pleased to report – their powers remain utterly undimmed. The album is simply one of the most exuberant things you’ll hear all year, Rodgers’ forever on-the-move percussion very much to the fore as the pair skitter across Afrobeats, post-punk and joyous indie-pop in a way that only they can. They’re an absolute knockout live proposition so get their Newcastle show inked into your diary, pronto. DP

Sacred Paws, Friday 16 May, Zerox, Newcastle, 7.30pm, £15, seetickets.com