Buffalo Summer

ANDREW HUNT USED to be a park ranger. Over beers at London pub the Black Heart, where his band Buffalo Summer will play later, the frontman recounts his National Trust past. “My background was geography, geology,” he explains, “different kind of ‘rock’.”

The Welsh rockers’ new album, , suggests he sided with the right kind. Cooked up in a remote cottage and recorded at Rockfield Studios, it full-tilt party moments, showcased on highlights like . “We let more of our childhood influences come into it, particularly the grunge thing,” says bassist Darren King. “It’s just like any Buffalo record, but we let our teenage selves write a couple of songs.”