What do you get if you take a good amount of The Mescaleros, a decent sprinkle of the Squirrel Nut Zippers and also throw in a hint of Calexico?
You get Brighton six piece, Opus Kink, is what.
Their new(ish) song Dog Stay Down has been getting some airplay in the UK in recent weeks on Steve Lamacq's BBC6 Music show - and deservedly so, as it is really rather good.
It is the last single to come from their forthcoming 7-track EP, Til The Stream Runs Dry and it is rather seedy sounding in large parts, almost spoken like Nick Cave would, but which then erupts into long drawn out bursts of fiesta horns over folk-punk guitar.
The band say that the tune is "a song about bad love, love for anything doomed and unhealthy, situation, substance or personage, and is dedicated to those who always return to the scene of the crime."
This follows on from last year's Wild Bill / This Train double-A side.
I was trying to think of a better way to describe the song, than the comparisons I threw into the opening lines, but I don't think I can do any better than Thomas Smith in the NME Magazine, who described the music as, "horn-fuelled filth-funk, where punk and jazz combine in grimy circumstances."
You can check it out here - https://youtu.be/GoBtzbxNXow