If garage rock thrills you – and it should! – then you need to have The False Poets in your life. A local outfit, their stuff is scuzzy in all the right places and packing real heat. Even their slower tunes (‘Moonstruck’) are dripping with atmosphere. They’ve got two albums under their belts and this, their third, is a live release featuring the cream of their crop. If you’d like to check them out in all their raucous glory, then they’re playing a gig at The Three Tuns in Gateshead on Friday 10 February. GM

Released 23 February on Nice Mind Records