I have a theory that the best repetitive songs are really about someone trying to leave a room and failing. ‘right now’, the newest single from Seattle’s arms around the world, is a prime example.

There’s a special kind of joy in a song that understands exactly what you need on a Friday night, and Allegra’s ‘Messed Up’ is that song.

It turns out you don’t actually have to stick to heavy distortion and standard verse-chorus quiet-loud tropes to make a genuinely massive rock record. On their second album, ‘Moments in ...