Those who still remember Charlotte Hatherley for her days in Ash won't find much common ground with her Behave EP.

A lean, rubbery, twisting guitar line propels the song beneath Hatherley's off-the-cuff delivery.

The spacious arrangement of the music only makes it that much more compelling to listen to.

After Behave itself is Mr. Ed, an altogether noisier song with its vocals mostly smeared out of understanding either by fuzzbox (along with all the guitars) or by a peculiarly retro-cosmic warble.

It's impossible to grasp whether the song is indeed about the famous horse.

Best just to enjoy its cocky glam-punk-stomp riffing instead.

The third song, Cousteau, is a very different creature to the preceding tracks.

A strange sliver of music, watery and evocative of 50s lounge exotica like Martin Denny, its only lyrics are a wordless wail.

It makes a dream-like coda to the storming vitality of the previous two numbers.

With an otherwise fairly solid release on her hands, it's a shame that Hatherley elected to end the disc with a dance remix of Behave.

Lacking the elastic groove of the original, it's a moderately entertaining diversion that makes a poor closer to an EP that could've ended perfectly on Cousteau.