Yorkshire’s snarling garage-punk outlaws Avalanche Party have never been ones to play it safe — and on their blistering new album Der Traum Über Alles, they don’t just rip up the rulebook, they set it on fire and scream into the flames. Recorded deep in the Californian desert at Rancho De La Luna with Dave Catching (Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal), the album is feral, febrile, and completely unrelenting — a snarling beast laced with bloodlust, esoterica, and ecstatic destruction.

Long known for their riotous live shows and shape-shifting sound, Avalanche Party have carved a strange and seductive niche in the UK underground. Der Traum Über Alles is their most fully realised vision yet — an incendiary swirl of post-punk menace, psych-soaked aggression and high-concept storytelling, held together by Jordan Ray’s demonic charisma and a band that plays like it’s possessed.

The album arrives following a string of singles, including the twitchy, skeletal groove of Shake The Slack, the spiralling chaos of John Coltrane’s Moscow Skyscraper, and the swaggering, tightly wound Nureyev Said It Best — each hinting at different corners of the album’s fractured, volatile psyche. And now, to mark its release, the band deliver Ecstasy — a track that sounds like it’s been exorcised rather than recorded.

Ecstasy was the first song we wrote using Ostrich tuning. But we had to build a guitar to make it work — separate inputs for different amps and effects, so the rhythm and melody didn’t get lost in the mud. Once we had that, the lyrical narrative just wrote itself. It’s a nice story.

Nice is relative, of course. Ecstasy feels like being strapped to the hood of a speeding car hurtling through a desert hallucination. It’s Avalanche Party at their most euphoric and untethered, tapping into something primal yet oddly intimate.