As you can imagine, being notionally based a century before rock n roll was invented, Ghostfire pay very little attention to conventions, opening this EP with the ska-tinged, kind of rockabilly but not really, Vaudevillian. And just in case you might’ve got your head round that, it’s followed by Nick Cave singing sea shanties in Masters Of The Sea.

This is a delightfully messy mix of folk, rock, shanty and dark threatening pop, with dashes of Bad Seeds, Bryan Ferry and Vincent Vincent and The Villains, mixed up with some surf-rock guitars and plenty of Hammond organ sounds.

Don’t try and understand this one, just go with it and see what happens.

Sexy Dave