Punk-soul crossover doesn't sound like a musical style that will work, but... Starting with a radio being tuned away from "Smoke on The Water" and then moving into the shouted intro, horns and hammond organ that sum up the album we go from the blisteringly angry opener ("Burn It Down") all the way through to the rallying cry of "There There, My Dear" (the album's closer); Dexys Midnight Runners' Searching For the Young Soul Rebels is an album you shouldn't ignore.

It's too easy to remember them for the catchy pop of "Geno" or "Come on Eileen" and forget that while Kevin Rowland was most definitely the master of the infectious hook he was also one of UK New Wave's most controversial and uncompromising characters.

Seemingly born out of the strange combination of an anorak love of Northern Soul and a real anger only possible in the early years of Thatcher's Britain, Searching For the Young Soul Rebels is a driving blue eyed soul album that has never been matched.  From the scorching cover of Chuck Woods' classic "Seven Days Is Too Long" through to the spoken word ode to Amphetamines of "Love Part One" it is on a par with UB40's Signing Off or The Specials eponymous debut as part of a complimentary set of cross-cultural landmarks from the period.

Twisted, fucked up, weirdly dressed, and misfit it may be, but it's also uplifting, poetic, angry and brassy. This is soul, ladies and gentleman.

"Welcome The New Soul Vision, I Said Welcome The New Soul Vision"