Baskery are three blond Swedish sisters who project a first impression of being rockabilly's reckless answer to Girls Aloud (except that they can actually sing, play, and write too of course). Just when you thought it couldn't get any better - add banjo punk! That's going to leave even Wallander with a beaming grin when they're in rumbustuous mid flow with thumping kick drum, some killer bottleneck banjo and sweet wailing harmonies. They have been compared to some sort of bleached Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (when BRMC are at their most twangy) and they've got the feisty attitude of June Carter. Greta, Stella and Sunniva Bondesson have somehow picked up authentic sounding Nashville accents (probably as a result of touring a couple of albums with dad on drums in previous incarnation the Slaptones) and sing of Milwaukee with as much familiarity as Malmo.It is the upbeat stompers like 'One Horse Down', 'Out-Of-Towner' and breakneck helter-skelter of 'Why Don't Ya' that are going to bring them converts. The slower songs can be less successful, mainly through an occasional failure to avoid some faltering lyrics and a tendency to end up aping the Dixie Chicks. Elsewhere there's no lyrical beating about the bush though: "Someone say you wanna do me with another man" and "Someone say you wanna flush my knickers down the loo". Tammy Wynette they ain't. What just about saves them even at the lows though, and enhances the highs no end, is a warm vitality born out of a commitment to a one or two take 'as live' approach to recording and that delicious telepathic sibling harmonising/hollering. 'Spoken Word' and 'Harsh' are the best of the gentler tracks, and the dustbowl blues of 'On A Day Like This' lies somewhere in between in tone.Fall Among Thieves has Lasse MÃ¥rtén at the controls (previous credits include Lykke Li and Peter Bjorn & John), and borrows some cuts from their initial EP from 2007. This debut album hit the shops on the continent in the middle of last year. Since what you hear now is what you're going to get live, they should be a whole brazen bunch of fun. 72%[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vRovQUeyk2E&feature=related[/youtube]Baskery on MySpace