On the negative front, I've heard many complaints about the album feeling 'samey' by the end. Dave Bayley's voice leads the band through 11 bangers, the instruments orbiting around him as he croons through the bushes, a constant rock of guidance throughout the album. The drum beats are incredibly distinctive (one of the many things lacking from GA's newest effort, How To Be A Human Being), lending a subtly different feel to each track.

And that metaphorical monster pounces at the end of nearly every song on Zaba, with each song taking its sweet time in its own way, eventually exploding or at the very least evolving into something even more interesting. The sounds and the textures of the songs feels like nothing else it's like you're wandering through a mysterious jungle on an alien planet while something massive watches you from afar, waiting. And I don't mean unique within the small scope Hip Hop, R&B or Pop, but wholly unique. The sounds and the Zaba is a very unique album. 'The sound of the record,' Dave says, 'is like a backdrop of man-made wilderness.Zaba is a very unique album. 'Zaba' is one complete beast and a journey you will get most from if you immerse yourself fully and listen from start to finish - before you is a series of situations describing a wealth of strange characters and the weird, subtropical land in which they exist. He escapes, takes a ride on a butterfly, and finally finds his parents chilling in the middle of the jungle, in a living room that exists within in a massive glass jar. At one point Leonard is kidnapped by a pack of mandrills and taken to three jungle judges who have human bodies and animal heads. In the book a boy called Leonard penetrates this wild, mysterious place and meets squawking birds, raucous insects, carnivorous flowers and petrified monsters. Steig's evocation of childhood adventure, exoticism and discovery is brilliantly fresh.

The title, lifted from Dave's favourite childhood story, comes from William Steig's The Zabajaba Jungle. Created in Epworth's own studio it is undoubtedly among this year's most striking debuts.

The 12 track record features single Gooey, Psylla, and a reworking of previous limited EP release, Black Mambo. Zaba' was recorded at Wolf Tone Studios in London, and produced by frontman Dave Bayley under executive production of Paul Epworth.

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