Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 24th of August 2013 Medicated Spirits review: Dog Trumpet stays true garage roots Reviewer rating: Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rock has a knack for hanging on to the various styles from across its history. Everything from rockabilly to heavy metal and punk have been sustained by successive generations of players and fans. Among the threads is a subsection of pop-rock that we might call the ''charm school''. It runs from the Beatles and the Kinks through Hunky Dory-period Bowie to Nick Lowe and on to Dog Trumpet. Brothers Peter O'Doherty and Reg Mombassa can't help themselves. The charm oozes from the lyrics, the singing and the instantly appealing melodies. Part of it is down to the absence of posturing, part to the way the catchiness of pop is anchored to earthy grooves, and part to the ingenuousness of O'Doherty's singing. Then there is the winking wit peeking through the lyrics and the affection evident in musical nods to precursors. Such songs on this double album (their sixth) as Speed of Light (with its fuzz bass), Bored Wife (''My wife is so bored that I think she might leave''), Raise Your Glasses, Moon and Star and Tell Me (to mention just five) are fast friends by just the second listening. The singing is like receiving a smile when a forbidding door is opened to you, and the playing is iced with such little gems as Mombassa's slide guitar on Penal Colony. The brothers attract collaborators of the calibre of Hamish Stuart and Jess Cia