The Bug Club are a lo-fi garage pop group from Wales and their latest single is this insanely catchy lo-fi anthem, Out In The Streets.

Every time I’m in the bath listening to Marc Riley on 6Music, he seems to be raving about The Bug Club. They never really turned my head, perhaps because I was worried about splashing the bathroom floor.

Until now.

Out In The Streets is one of those anthems you can’t stop singing from the moment you first hear it.

The throbbing bass recalls the style of The Stranglers’ great Jean-Jacques Burnel. The relentless rhythm sounds like the Velvet Underground.

And the deadpan vocals (in the verses, not the shouty chorus) are like Lou Reed might have sounded if he had come from Wales rather than Long Island.

As for the skronky guitar solo, and the other earlier solo played on some sort of cheap keyboard (I think) don’t sound like anything I’ve heard before.

The Bug Club come from Caldicot in Monmouthshire and are a trio of Sam Willmett on guitar and vocals, Tilly Harris on bass and vocals and Dan Matthew on drums.

I’m guessing they are much more proficient than their DIY-style garage pop songs might have you believe, because they have been going since 2016 and have put out a lot of records bursting with lo-fi charm.

They remind me of another prolific lo-fi band I love, The Wave Pictures, and I’m kicking myself for missing them up the road the other day.

And their lyrics are quirky and clever, personal and often very funny: “I have a loving family home to bitch and moan about. I have a fish and a couple of dogs to walk around and around and around and around… I have most of the things I hear people talking about.”