A five-year hiatus may have led you to believe that Wetdog were a mere two-album wonder, confined to nostalgic East London conversations and the occasional ‘related artists’ list on Spotify. This fate didn’t sit well with the trio, compelling them to deliver another eerily erratic album of melodic post-punk infused pop songs and atonal harmonies that sees them thrive into the dynamic, weird new wave-charged band they’d previ- ously threatened to be.

Despite consistently being shoved into irksome comparisons to The Raincoats and The Fall, Rivka Gillieron, Sarah Datblygu and Billy Easter’s appetite for inconsistency banishes resem- blance with the two bands, seeing Divine Times‘ fervent rhythms and bolshy behaviour fashion a genre somewhere between Josef K and Bauhaus.

Ridgway Crash is a mes- merising minimalist interlude that spawns goosebumps, opposing the sparse disjointedness of Horse’s Head and Sometimes I’m a Bitch‘s pleasingly piercing vocal melodies, sounding like Marine Girls having their ovaries squeezed.

Divine Times‘ erratic manner can be traced to Datbyglu’s relocation to America four years ago, which inevitably led to a Postal Service-esque remote recording affair, and Easter immersing herself in her new band, Shopping. Nevertheless, the band’s seduc- tive third album propels its way to potentially be Upset The Rhythm’s finest offering of 2015 and brings Wetdog’s considerable qualities gleaming back into focus.