San Francisco hooligans The Sermon aren’t exactly reinventing the garage rock wheel on their debut long-player, Volume, for Alternative Tentacles. The five-piece, which counts ex-members of The Fells and Mt. McKinleys in its ranks, slings Nuggets-style retro rockers with heavy dollops of R&B and psych feedback like any number of black Levi-clad basement punkers, but their X factor is spelled out in the album’s title: plenty of volume, Jackson. The Sermon wrap a sonic straitjacket of buzzsaw rock around their creepy-crawly tales of futility, roadside murder and working class rage and set the whole thing to burning in a white-hot fury with a twin-guitar-and-theremin blitz. Funny thing is, the damn thing’s got a groove running through every tune that you could almost dance to – if you had, say, 10,000 volts running through you. If that’s the kind of charge you need, here’s the place to plug in.