Wild Nothing @ CCA Glasgow, 15 June

Pop music is a tricky beast; a delicate dance between panache and authenticity. Fear Of Men take both qualities by the horns, delivering up an impassioned performance on the back of their foreboding sophomore release, Fall Forever.

Whether exploring the caliginous, Celtic-melody of Undine – singer Jessica Weiss's conjoined fingers empathically held aloft as she intones the change in me/is never what you want it to be – or driving purposefully through the Cranberries-indebted, drumpad inflected Trauma, the Brighton four piece throw collective heart and soul into their set. The group's ardent, theatrical delivery makes the Wednesday night gig an at-times challenging listen, but there's no doubting the unique palpability of this band-to-watch.

Wild Nothing, by contrast, immediately buoy the spirits. A sizeable crowd huddle closer to the CCA stage as Jack Tatum and his rotating touring lineup go on to deliver a near-perfect set of polished indie pop. From the razor sharp delivery of opener To Know You, and the glorious RnB wooze of A Woman's Wisdom, to the ebullient encore ('one more tune! one more tune!' beg a smitten audience) of Japanese Alice, the group draw almost exclusively from new album Life Of Pause.

Indeed, the only gripe arguably worth levelling at the performance is that it's a touch too polished, a touch too neat – but the heart in Tatum's compositions invariably filters through. Enlivening their new material with ambient synth, nostalgic grooves and precision playing, Wild Nothing could well herald the dawn of the next New Wave.