You can always rely on Chess Club Records when it comes to new bands. Having already broken the likes of Jungle and Beach Baby in recent times, it's another London outfit, Pumarosa, who are tasked with filling those big shoes. Led by the redoubtable Isabel Munez-Newsome (a vowel away from a decent Joanna pun, damn), Pumarosa have been much talked about in industry circles, having pricked up ears with a brace of mesmerizing early demos, but it's CC who have won the race to release the band's debut record proper, 'Priestess'. Produced by psychpop/krautrock go-to guy, Dan Carey, 'Priestess' is a seven minute sprawl through Isabel's esoteric lyricism, lolloping tribal beats, nagging guitar lines and fuzzy synth textures. There's even a yawning, sleazy sax part which slithers in around the four minute mark. Picture Foals losing their marbles on ayahuasca in the middle of the Amazon, and well, you get the gist. - DC