If a band and its members are from one background and one scene there’s almost always going to be a similar liking for just one type of music that they want to play.

What you end up with is one niche in the market that they want to corner that can lead to some painfully boring music that they heard ten years earlier. But with Puggy, they are very fortunate to have come from the most musical of backgrounds, and you can hear this in their music.

If you haven’t heard of Puggy, then you need to get up and make yourself aware of this hotly anticipated act. Boasting members from London, France and Sweden, this band have the added advantage (as well as being great musicians) of being from various cultural and musically diverse backgrounds. They can draw from these backgrounds and here have created some truly unique and hauntingly individual music.

With a purely acoustic sound resonating slight tones of soft rock and melodic melodies that give the listener the reminder of a feeling. What that feeling is though, know one knows.

Why? Because this music is so hard to be defined or described. It sounds like nothing else we’ve ever really heard. Acoustic music has been around for decades and decades but there is something else here. It’s acoustic music with a twist.

The reason the music is so individual is thanks to the singers’ multi-cultural backgrounds Matthew Irons is from England, Egil Franzen from Sweden and Romain Descampe from France. They all help to keep the music on a curve that can’t be stopped (and keep music critics interested). 

So many words could describe the music that Puggy have created on this album. Beautiful, musically clever, melodic, haunting, colourful, and expressive, but only one adjective can apply here. Unique.

This album probably doesn’t have any ‘number 1’ material on here, but then again it’s not that kind of mainstream music. It’s essentially underground work with a light-hearted side to it. There are some incredibly creative songs on here that show how instrumental this band is. Out Of Hand sounds like a beautifully constructed melodic song with the pained lyrics of an annoyed teenager, whilst We’ll See sounds like a Latino dance song - It’s just that versatile.

Times Like These is sung in such an expressive and dark way by Matthew Irons that you’re drawn to it like a moth to a flame. There’s more acoustic melodies here than if Simon and Garfunkel were thrown in a room with Radiohead. It’s a shame that this band could easily go unnoticed when they’re such a rarity. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.

Either way Puggy owe credit to themselves for creating something so exclusive.