Drawing on influences as disparate as Tamla Motown, Norwegian death-punk and The Who, BONK is the sound of a culture hell-bent on putting litter into bins and the rock into punk.

Coming out of the Oslo underground rock scene, Western Soul made quite a splash with national critics. Hailed as the antithesis to American Idol - described as "the sound of fuzz-guitars killing a boy band" and appreciated as a pleasant full-on "sonic beating," the album is a highly concentrated brew of punk-sized tracks laced with cold-pressed extracts from Judas Priest, Smokey Robinson, Motorhead and more. The impure ingenuity of it all makes it rock without the retro.