"Daydreams & Breakdowns" is five tracks of what the band rather charmingly term "RotationRock" – a portmanteau that sounds like it was coined during a particularly inspired pub conversation. It's guitar music that wears its influences like a well-thumbed vinyl collection: the melodic sensibilities of 70s power pop, the emotional heft of 90s alternative, and just enough indie sophistication to prevent it all from sounding like a nostalgic pastiche.

The real test, of course, is whether these songs will survive beyond their initial charm offensive. Always a danger with this sort of retro-fitted romanticism that the novelty will wear thin once you've decoded all the references. Yet there's enough genuine songcraft here to suggest CENTRIFUGE might have stumbled onto something more substantial than mere pastiche.

It's not groundbreaking, and it certainly won't trouble the year-end lists of the more serious-minded critics. But "Daydreams & Breakdowns" succeeds in that most difficult of tasks: it makes familiar sounds feel fresh again, if only for the duration of its brief runtime. In an era where guitar bands seem perpetually caught between nostalgia and innovation, Something to be said for simply doing the thing well, with conviction and a healthy sense of one's own absurdity.

Sometimes being "too uncool" is precisely the point.