Sometimes a record has the power to instinctively take you back to a moment in time; a holiday playlist as a teen, your first gut-wrenching heartbreak or even sobbing in the pews of a crematorium. LA glam troupe Starcrawler take you back to the early noughties. A time when Karen O's caterwaul sounded out across New York City like a welcome art-punk klaxon. As references go, it's rather in-keeping as fellow noughties alumna, Brody Dalle handpicked the band to support The Distillers' recent reunion tour.

Starcrawler's bulldozer riffs and bloodied faces (they're known for their fake blood theatrics on stage) jostle up nicely in the mosh pit alongside Dalle's spiked, power punk. It's all very vaudeville, only more Billion Dollar Babies than ballet. Album teaser, 'Bet My Brains' is testament to that, with the kind of bludgeoning bass lines Lemmy would cock a leg up on the monitor for. Of course, Devour You isn't all just a nod to those ticket stubs of past Kerrang Awards.

Produced by Nick Launay (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, L7 and – quelle surprise – Karen O and the gang), Starcrawler's sophomore release feels like a more-than-relevant slap around the chops. Standout 'Tank Top' darts and dives with the rollicking swank of Amyl and The Sniffers and 'She Gets Around' channels the silk shirt, tasseled talent of Sunflower Bean. Meanwhile, curveball 'No More Pennies' takes its cue straight from shoegazing gang Ride's recent return, but with a rhyming couplet that's seeped in the classic romance of frontwoman Arrow De Wilde: 'I can't believe I went and dropped it / This kind of love doesn't fit in a locket'.

Devour You might sound like a rag-tag bunch of sounds and symbolism but then that's probably a fairly accurate take on both the band and their chaotic live shows. Because this record doesn't just have the power to recall one moment, but a whole crazed evening of them, and that's definitely worth making room for.

Out Fri 11 Oct on Rough Trade.