Ah, the joys of elaborate artwork and packaging.

As excruciatingly irritating and occasionally impressive as album (or EP) packaging can be, you have to wonder what happened to the ancient and simple jewel box case.

Take the new Delays EP for instance. In order to get to the CD, you need to unwrap layers of folded card with cut-outs of the band’s name. The funniest thing about the elaborate artwork is that, in all honesty, it’s so unimpressive. Maybe it’s the regular use of brown in the design.

Anyway, enough of this. While the artwork certainly ain’t that impressive, the music contained on the CD itself isn’t half-bad. Actually, it’s pretty damn good.

The title track of the release, Love Made Visible, is rather stirring and pulsating piece of indie rock. The lyrics about “Love made visible/Your skin feels incredible” are like the worst kind of secondary school poetry, but the sheer power and brilliance of the song’s musciality turns it into a stirring and pounding record.

Panic Attacks doesn’t have the same gravitas, but there are still worse ways to spend three minutes and forty seconds of your life. Shame about Slow Burn though, which seems to have so many clever chord changes that the band forgot to write a tune around them.

However, You See Colours brings matters to a close in suitably melodic manner and carries on the pulsating chorus style found in the EP’s opening track, while the tagged-on remix of Love Made Visible could have been avoided.