But it's perhaps album opener "Best Friend" that best demonstrates their favoured tropes: the terse, mechanistic beat, as if programmed on some primitive drum-machine, underpins a jaunty African guitar twinkle in the fashionable Vampire Weekend manner, with Jonathan Pierce's somewhat epicene vocal style bringing suitably dramatic emotion to a lyric about a deceased friend.
But for the most part his late work parlayed the visceral, somewhat nasty edge of his street work into a suitably physical, rough-and-tumble darkroom technique.
"Fine" makes a suitably lukewarm response for what is, statistically, a somewhat mixed picture.
Admittedly Newcastle will face somewhat tougher hurdles than Northampton, of League Two, in the coming months, but McClaren is suitably encouraged.
Suitably, most of the video takes place "on the floor" and Lopez's somewhat trite lyrical pattern punctuates each line with the song title: "If you're a party freak then step on the floor, if you're animal animal then tear up the floor, break the sweat on the floor, yeah we work on the floor".
Ian Culbard, who also adapted At the Mountains of Madness (which won him a 2011 British Fantasy award), ably transforms Lovecraft's somewhat lumpen and info-dumpy prose into a taut, chilling read, well-paced and illustrated with a suitably muted palette.
This element of realism, however, appears somewhat flexible when it comes to character-models; the likes of nefarious seafarers such as Blackbeard, Calico Jack and Charles Vane looked suitably scurvy-ridden, yet female pirate captain Anne Bonny could easily have passed for a catwalk model in Milan.
Men and women dance the Viennese Waltz together; debutantes are presented in a tiara and diamonds to a suitor suitably reputable to marry; etiquette, dress code, and family background are paramount values; and any diversion from these somewhat archaic values would have you deemed unsuitable for ball culture.
Hales was suitably inspired.
