Our good pal Anna Goldthorp joins us this week and takes us into a genre of music we have not yet covered with Shannon and the Clams’ third album, Dreams in the Rat House.

Hailing from Oakland, Shannon and the Clams are part of a rather deep, and popular, retro garage rock revival scene. They’ve been going since 2009 and have six albums in that time to critical acclaim. The band themselves are very well respected in this scene, and the boys had really great fun immersing themselves in an entire genre of music they’d never really explored before. A genre which is somewhere between 60s do-wop, RnB, garage rock, psychedelia and rockabilly.

There’s a lot to be said about this genre - and believe us, we do say a lot about it - but what’s pretty clear is that when it comes to recreating that 1960s feel, Shannon and the Clams stand head an ...