The Cribs' 2007 album Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever was one of the best straight-up guitar records released that year: it saw the hitherto defiantly lo-fi Wakefield trio smoothing out their sound (with the help of producer Alex Kapranos) without losing any of their vital edge. Combined with their grass-roots attitude to live gigs and their entertaining media soundbites (around the time of the Live 8 concerts, frontman Ryan Jarman announced that ''the mainstream attitude of most indie bands'' was a bigger threat to the planet than global warming), it set The Cribs up as the anti-Razorlight or the anti-Killers; a beacon of indie integrity in the face of arena-rock pandering; the sort of guitar band you'd be tippexing onto your pencil case if you were still in school.