But 22 years on from their eponymous debut album, the Cribs are still going and, on the evidence of Selling a Vibe, wearing their longevity and elder statesman status rather well. There’s a certain confidence about the album’s sound. It won’t surprise anyone conversant with the Cribs’ oeuvre to learn that it deals in distorted guitars and sharp, punchy songs. Produced by Caroline Polachek’s former Chairlift bandmate Patrick Wimberly, it feels a little more streamlined than its predecessor, Night Network: there’s a faint 80s pop sheen to A Point Too Hard to Make and a drum machine pulse underpinning Rose Mist, but it’s not a radical departure. What is striking is how uniformly well-written and powerful the songs are. Time and again, they hit a perfect balance: nothing here feels slick or overworked, but the melodies soar, the choruses hit, everything clicks faultlessly. If Selling a Vibe was a debut album, people might well be working themselves into a froth about it, but then again, it’s unlikely the songs here could be by a new artist: they speak of experience, the product of a band who have worked out exactly what they do and how to do it.