Fronted by twins Ryan and Gary Jarman and backed by their brother Ross on the
drums, The Cribs roared out of Wakefield in the early 2000s in a hail of
nihilistic, rabid, DIY, indie rock thunder. Generating a fevered following and a
fearsome reputation for crowd diving, stage invading, full-throttle live shows,
their early albums The Cribs (2004) and The New Fellas (2005) sought to capture
that messy, malevolent, electric energy. It was the slightly more polished third
album Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever (2007), produced by Franz Ferdinand's
Alex Kapranos, that proved a com...