Dog Trumpet started as a low-key side project for brothers Reg Mombassa (Chris O'Doherty) and Pete O'Doherty in 1990 when their main band - Mental as Anything - went on a short hiatus. A decade later, they'd both left the Mentals and the side project was now the main band.

Both have enormously successful artist day jobs, so Dog Trumpet albums arrive unhurried and unburdened by any need to prove anything. As such, Medicated Spirits sounds like it could have been released any time over the last 30 years, and even though it skips all over the genre map, it is a rarity - a complete sounding double album with no filler.