Considerably more tidily recorded than their first, the Horrors' second and final word on garage rock is a lot closer to the early days of rockabilly than blues or rock 'n' roll. Like a millennial version of the Bassholes' seminal Blue Roots album, Vent, while sufficiently sloppy for fans of In the Red's particularly lo-fi output, is not so much "retro" as an extension of the music that came before it and that the band clearly loves. That said, there is still plenty of the garage-noise that identified their debut, and the band even veers into Rolling Stones territory with the fuzz-heavy ballad "Hope's Blues."  The restraint shown in the feedback department, however, puts the album closer to the Black Keys Brothers and will appeal to fans of the post-2010/post-White Stripes garage-rock era as much as adherents to the Gories/Oblivians-led garage-rock movement of the '90s. While Vent is indisputably more "subdued" than The Horrors, fans of that album should go straight to "When I Get Home.