Reviews / Album

Each track is coated in a tender and airy musical ambience, a far cry from the mellow-yet-edgy jazz flavours that soaked Seasons Of My Soul.

Metric clearly quest for perfectly-formed sonic architecture, which from the brooding Artificial Nocturne to Breathing Underwater they more or less nail.

yet the cartoon pop world that Tenniscoats inhabit is unparalleled. All Aboard! is another triumph from the idiosyncratic duo.

Although this ground is well-trodden, Zulu Winter have crafted a complex but cohesive album with swags of instantly likeable melodic gems and enough interesting lines to get under the skin and stay there

For the most part, The Slow Push succeed in crafting their own sound and songs. Check them out.

It’s hard to fathom what the band are trying to pull off – there isn’t enough earnestness or tongue-in-cheek derision, therefore Pop Etc sounds like a mess of half-hearted ventures.

Overall, the feel of 2:54 recalls moments of The Cure musically, with a kind of an all-round PJ Harvey and Sleater-Kinney (with reverb replacement over lo-fi) feel thrown into the mix.

The same two-week stricture remained, thus keeping things as raw and improvisational as possible, gleaning some stellar responses as a result.

With versatility and musical integrity such as this on display, it seems that Frasca is destined to create her own luck.

...the track joins Flutes in controlling the pace of the album, making full use of Hot Chip’s signature build-up of euphorically layered vocal and instrumental elements.