The sleeve photo shows these precocious chaps toasting each other with Jack Daniels and rarely can a glass have been raised so deservedly. For out and out energy, hard work and blistering funk attack, ‘Don't Look Back’ takes some beating. A mix of Brecker Bros ballsyness, a dash of Tower of Power strut and a whole lot of their own verve culled from playing with everyone from Kylie to Kenny Wheeler gives this brass trio more bang for your funk bucks than should be allowed. Not that they can't take it down when they want to as on the bluesy ‘I Could Be Wrong’ or the Miles inflected darkness of ‘5am’. But it's the furiously tight ‘Intent’ and the aptly titled ‘Wired’ that will blow you away. Mind you having Outram on board in such fiery form rather belies the ‘trio’ set up: he consistently steals the show with some outrageously showboating guitar. Only question is, what's left in the bag for that tricky second album?