The songs that make up this unique, vital sounding BBC Live Sessions EP exhibit Houdini Dax’s irresistible, feel good, melodies, and head bobbing, rhythm section that’s reminiscent of your favourite early Beatles classics.

This special live EP opens with ‘Robin You Lie” - insistent toe tapping vocals, twangy guitars, and playful rhythms redolent of primetime era Moptops. And that’s not all, when the frenetic guitar licks, kick at the end it’s like being thrust into the middle of a raucous, foot stomping party. Second track “Mr Pascoe” shows off the Dax’s subtler side: its hypnotic vocal chant is deliciously complimented by hammond organs: and twitchy guitar lines that recall 70s garage rock. Meanwhile “Fizzy Moon” squelchy fuzz riffs, and addictive, ghostly vocals echoes with an eerie psychedelic groove, redolent the most recent Arctic Monkeys record, and the Krautrock of Can. Bonus track “Struggling In The Sand” is a joyous, bittersweet, Kinks-esque strum down the shore, that playfully kicks sand up in the verses, only pausing for breath in the middle eight for a moment of quiet reflection before the effervescent, surrealist lyrics kick back in, then finally collapse face down on the beach.