Reference points are all about age, I guess, and I’m probably older than this band’s target audience. (Though I like to think that they make music in such a classic style, that there isn’t such a thing as a target audience, at least not in terms of age.) What I’m trying to say is that, whilst the band blurb is full of all the cool contemporary touchstones, there is a lot going on here that reminds me of The Sundays, a band who similarly and sublimely blurred the lines between jangling indie pop and more rock and roll energies, who made music that allowed the light to get in and was cool and confident, deft and delicate. For me, a man of a certain age, it doesn’t get much better than that.
It is also a reminder that pop music used to be made as much by indie-kids wielding guitars as by digital dexterity, something we seem to have forgotten in this age of ones and zeros.
As the spring sun streams through the office window, this is the sort of music that seems to serve as an energized soundtrack to the warmth and light returning to the world. Guitars riff and jangle in equal measure, the bassline and back beats rise and fall to create a dynamic that keeps things exciting, and man, that voice!
Call it intelligent indie, call it poised and purposeful pop, call it rock with smarts, call it what you like, but I’m just going to call it the best song I have heard in a long while!
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