Cormac Battle’s guitars and vocals haven't come along way since the days of Kerbdog. What I found about this debut offering was the bands tendency to sound like a jumped up American band.

Commercially the music is more mainstream than that of Kerbdog, but then that's maybe why Kerbdog failed. In this leap towards new success the band seem to have lost their purpose or musical intent. Ronan McHugh’s production is clean and crisp but the album is still terribly uninspired. Cormac Battle’s selling point to the album was "It cost a ridiculously small amount of money to do. We have a different attitude to music from when we were young kids, as you can probably hear."

Bastinado however has its moments and is pleasant to listen to with some catchy tracks. It's just a shame to see Wilt release an album that is unenthusiastic in an attempt to be over commercial when they could have done so much more.