Pop music has always had a soft spot for the man who goes too far. Here he is again, hurtling westward across America with a guitar, a sell-out crowd at every stop, and a heart that stays stubbornly parked in England. Colchester's KaiserKillers have turned this ancient predicament into a single that rattles, chimes and aches in roughly equal measure.

There is a particular sort of dread that arrives not with a scream but with a pulse. John Carpenter understood this in 1978, when he sat down with a synthesiser and a time signature that refuses to let the listener settle, and produced what remains perhaps the most economical piece of terror in popular music. Five beats to the bar, a handful of notes, and a generation of cinema-goers has never again been able to walk home from the pictures without glancing over a shoulder.

Breakups get all the attention. The slammed door, the thrown mug, the voicemail that should never have been sent: pop has built a gaudy industry on the night everything ends. Twisted Natures is interested in the morning after, and the many mornings after that, when the person has gone but their ghost still turns up uninvited. "Do You Think of Me Too?" is about that haunting, and it is lovely.

Oklahoma has a long habit of producing music that sounds like weather: the Flaming Lips' cosmic downpours, the Starlight Mints' bright squalls. Echo The Light's "Send Me" arrives like something gentler and more stubborn, a front of warm air that settles over the room and refuses to leave. It is a worship song that has been out in the world, been rained on, and come home with its pulse intact.