Unpredictable, raw, and bursting with ideas, Der Traum Uber Alles is the kind of album that makes you wonder how Avalanche Party isn’t already huge. Every track here could be a standout single on an album from a far more established band - shifting gears constantly, balancing ferocious intensity with irresistible hooks. The album feels like a whirlwind tour through Britain’s greatest and most distinctive eras, but with the dial cranked up to 11.

Shake the Slack sounds like Duran Duran at their most anthemic, whilst Ecstasy feels like a lost track from Radiohead’s The Bends, while simultaneously highlighting how much The Bends owed to The Smiths. The opener John Coltrane’s Moscow Skyscraper starts with subdued, almost hesitant vocals before escalating into an unhinged, howling climax. Nureyev Said It Best is all funky, danceable swagger until it suddenly drops into a cavernous, dramatic breakdown, sucking all the air out of the room before snapping back into motion. Despite the ecleticism, Der Traum Uber Alles never feels like a band trying on different styles for the sake of it, everything tied together by Jordan Bell’s wildly entertaining vocal performance - switching between crooning, yelping and outright howling. Target might just be the most intense song on the record - a feverish, over-the-top-blast of sexual tension and pure adrenaline.

The album’s scope recalls the wide-reaching ambition of Britpop at its peak, when bands like Pulp and Blur felt free to experiment beyond any one sound rather than being locked into an indie-rock formula. The up-tempo tracks have the jagged, breathless energy of Maxïmo Park, while the more theatrical moments recall the infectious melodicism of Madness, with that same knack for crafting unshakeably catchy tunes.

Avalanche Party have taken radio-friendly songwriting prowess and injected it with a ferocity and unpredictability that sets them completely apart. This album deserves to be a major moment for them. When you combine this level of songwriting with this much bite, you get something very, very special indeed.