Recorded over nine days at the world-famous Rockfield Studios in Wales, Tigercub’s new album ‘Nets to Catch the Wind’ finds the trio exploring a wider-ranging sound than ever before, with frontman Jamie Hall saying it’s ‘about learning to live in the light even when you know it will not last’.

‘Silver Smile’ opens the record in grungey, scuzzy fashion – all stop-start guitars and towering drumbeats. It’s clear the trio mean business and this continues through to ‘Fall In Fall Out’, an anthemic slice of alt-rock with an edge of sadness running through: ‘One love, passed out’. This continues through to ‘Stuck in the Melancholy’ as the title is repeated amidst some heartbreaking thoughts – ‘I don’t want to feel a thing’ – and thunderous riffs.

‘I’m Braking Out’ sits between Manchester Orchestra and Black Peaks with its defiant roar of ‘Today is the day I’m breaking out’ and determination against the odds: ‘I found a way out. I’ll never return. The thoughts fade out. Dark embers will burn’. ‘Head Over Heels’ has a huge chorus and nod to one of the biggest break-up songs – ‘You love might tear us apart, trying to let you go’ – while the 6-minute ‘Nightmares’ lives up to its title with a psychedelic sense of unease running through: ‘Was it a bitter dream, running into the night?’

‘Golden Sands’ offers a 12-second Casio keyboard interlude, with the melody than recreated in riffs on ‘Magic Sleep’. It’s a ballsy piece of Dinosaur Pile-Up-style power rock, complete with gothic undertones: ‘Just like a spinning top, she pivots and never stops’. ‘Cut the Eyes Out of the Photographs’ takes you back to the early ’90s with its Pearl Jam sound and talk about ‘a dream within a dream’ before ‘Sadness, Don’t You Worry’ rounds off the record with a falsetto and hope to shake off the sadness: ‘I felt out of focus, let truth become the lie’.