Benjamin Booker comes from the same neck of the woods as Hurray for the Riff Raff – that's New Orleans – and shares the same pugnacious, scuffed-up roots sensibility as Alabama Shakes.

With this punk blues bent and his guitar and percussion set-up (with drummer Max Norton), it's no surprise that he is touring the States with Jack White. So Booker has undeniable appeal; it's particularly hard not to love a three-minute ditty called Spoon Out My Eyeballs. On close examination, his songcraft often stalls at the pupal (but promising) stage, but there is enough chutzpah here to steamroller such reservations. For instance, the ramshackle Have You Seen My Son weds a Strokes mainframe to a Led Zeppelin coda.

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