Lanes and Its Been Great: the post-punk that smells good in the Mediterranean, spleen and lukewarm beer

It's the kind of song that pops into your playlist like an old buddy who hasn't spoken for two years, but shows up with a pack of Kro and a guitar under his arm. Lanes comes from Toulon (Hello Tonton), but their sound comes from England, Ireland, from a small mouldy cellar in Manchester or from a squat in Camden, somewhere between the sharp guitars of Bloc Party, the black tie spleen of The Cure and the verbal uppercuts of Fontaines D.C. Their n…