Bleak crime novelist Jim Thompson is one of our favourite writers, and any band named after one of his stories needs to meet certain requirements. Dark, desperate, dangerous, threatening, unpleasant…you get the picture.

Pop. 1280 thankfully manage to tick all these boxes and more and are generating quite a bloggers’ buzz with their raw, chaotic freak punk. Want a mosh-pit meltdown in your front room? Be our guest with this three and a half minute junkyard gem from their Grid EP – just remember we’re not responsible for any damage done.

Visit MySpace here. Out on October 26th, order from Insound here.

Download Pop. 1280 – Step Into The Grid mp3 (from The Grid EP)