Klang - People Underground: lots of great ideas but a diluted end product

Klang, formerly known as The Usual Boys, are under a new moniker. A largely unknown force in the UK, the group gave Devolved early access to their new single, People Underground.

Skin-tight but expressive, the track starts by marrying post-punk sensibilities with eerily long pauses - lamenting something-but-I'm-not-sure-what. Thankfully, it doesn't really matter in the genre.

Klang, judging from their social media presence, embrace the post-punk label as an identity - echoes of the first wave of the late 1970s ring out across the song.

Although Klang indulge in prolonged guitar solos, the ingredients of a brilliant track are in there. But it sounds like the Berlin outfit are mixing a lot of different ideas, hoping one will win out - and it never really does. It speeds up towards the end, before it falls into nothing. Perhaps intentional, but I'm not sure.

People Underground is perfectly suited to the basements of any cool district of any city across the world, and it has all the right components to work - but it just doesn't click into place.

Hopefully Klang come back with something which explores one of the ideas in the song, but follows it through. The band have done all the hard yards on the track, it just needs to bloom.

People Underground is out on May 22.