Plata O Plomo - it means "gold or lead" in Mexican bandit speak, roughly translated as your money or your life. Well, you wouldn't expect Winnebago Deal to call their debut album `We Love Ickle Fluffy Bunnies' now, would you? (although the idea does appeal somewhat).

There are other things here too that you should have expected from the two Bens if you'd been watching anything like closely over the past year or two. Like the fact that the entire album lasts a whopping 17 minutes and that it was recorded in just three days. Because as fret-bashing lead screamer Ben Perrier told Nightshift back in February, "It won't be some fucking Pro-Tooled skinny digital bullshit, that's for sure." So `Plata O Plomo' rocks. Like the band's now almost legendary moshing crew, it gets stuck in and stays stuck in. It was always going to be hard work capturing the real essence of Winnebago Deal's awesome live sound in the studio, but they've come as close as is probably feasible and although they're not sad enough to have put "Play Loud" on the album sleeve, it goes without saying that somewhere between 10 and infinity is a decent and proper volume to enjoy it to its full extent.

All the live favourites are included here: `Manhunt' kicks it all off like a rabid panther piloting a Blackhawk attack helicopter, while by the time it reaches `Whisky Business' three songs and six minutes later, it's piling on the pressure and you're fit to headbutt the wall, tell your boss to go forth and multiply and chuck the nearest heavy item of electronic hardware out of a 10th storey window. Because that's the effect all great rock and roll should have on you. It's proof that smoking dope doesn't have to turn you into a pizza-guzzing hippie vegetable. It's also proof that while every combination of guitar chords might have been done already, there's always room for doing the best ones again, preferably with as little respect for the original style as possible.

It all comes to a bloody close with the appropriately-titled `Nitro Ground Shaker' and then you're ready to press Play again and break all the stuff you missed first time round. The Devil commands you. Without doubt the fiercest record Fierce Panda have ever released and a fitting addition to their hallowed catalogue.

Dale Kattack