Summer is here and so are the exponents of polished, over-produced Euro-dance anthems and sickly-sweet pop with guitars to soundtrack it along with beaches in the videos.
So is Swine Flu. It's hard to know what is more infectious. The swine sniffles or the first two tracks by Black Daniel.

In fact, we suspect that some of these pig colds have been cases of mistaken diagnosis. It's understandable when the artwork to Black Daniel's double A-side single features one of the very beasts in question while one of the songs has been dubbed, 'I Love You But Don't Touch Me 'Cos You're Sick'.

Instead of being laid low by highly infectious little bugs it seems some suffers have in fact been floored by the grimy, sexy, heavy hitting bassline of 'Here Comes Caesar'. This is the kind of thing sub-woofers we built for.

In stark contrast to the electronic euphoria is 'I Love You But...', a spaced-out indie number. Black Daniel have been on tour with Kasabian in the past and there's certainly an early Kasabian-esque hint in the track's vocals and a touch of Mudhoney with clean guitars strumming over paper-over-a-comb type fuzz and restless, upbeat drums.

With a 6Music and Radio 1 single of the week, plus the seal of approval from Art Brut already under their belt, this should be the beginning of something beautiful for the three to five assorted folks that are Black Daniel (one of which goes by the name Lamik2000 - which just reminds us of 15peter20 - but we'll gloss over that bit).

By Stephen Milnes

Label: Dustbowl Records
Release Date: 20th July 2009