Four women all playing and singing indie folk together that on paper could look like Black Country, New Road or The Last Dinner Party, Grandmas House are actually considerably sleazier and darker than those comparisons. Lead vocalist Yasmin Berndt sounds like she’s had a whole bucket of gravel poured down her throat, and their debut album Baby You’re A Winner is a rollicking whisky-soaked good time that’s cool and immediately distinctive.

There’s a darkness running through the record consistently, a brooding melancholy that surfaces in the quieter moments and gives the raucous ones extra weight. The band don’t feel twee or particularly well-behaved with folk and blues influences that reach considerably further back than most. The title track opens the album tense and smooth followed by DOG, rollicking rockabilly rock and roll. Blue Oblivion is more tender in the verses with a cool tempo switch in the chorus, and Hurricane is very filmic, and would work brilliantly on a soundtrack. Dance is the album’s biggest single with a jigging riff backed by horns in place of a normal chorus. Taxidermy is haunting and intimate, and I Miss That House brings things to a peak of brooding intensity, classic grunge with blues-influenced heaviness. The more intimate and softer tracks pull you in close, and the more raucous ones are tremendous fun. You come away from the record thinking that this would be a fantastic band to see live, but there are also so many moments of tender darkness to remind you that this is more than just a good time. There’s something in common here with Flogging Molly and The Pogues, with that same quality of folk music that has real bite to it, sounding lived in and slightly dangerous, completely at home in a rowdy pub. A really cool and unique debut album with an impressive emotional range.