Rowdy London five-piece The Amusements have released debut digital single The Trip – with loud-as-fuck guitars punctuated with a catchy keyboard riff you can strut to – the track packs a crippling punch to the senses in its short 1.56 running time.

The tune is firmly rooted in its influences from 60s-psych garage to early 80s hardcore, with singer Luke Barshack’s erratic, growling vocals recalling Keith Morris-era Black Flag, but it still manages to sound contemporary as a guitar anthem for the twenty-somethings credit-crunch generation.

Ugly lyrical content aside, this follows the grand traditions of rock ‘n’ roll at its most pure – the unashamedly bombastic sound of guitar, bass and drum recalls that youthful abandon we had a few years back – it is the sound of growing up but staying young, of drinking too many snakebites and letting loose in a moshpit, of meeting your mates and then sharing a freshly rolled cigarette.

Those were the days….