Album Review: Charles Jenkins & The Zhivagos - The Last Polaroid

Although he often goes off on interesting tangents (like albums built around a 20-piece string section or historical anecdotes about Melbourne), former Icecream Hands member Charles Jenkins here offers a collection of his classicist pop that occasionally longs for simpler times and technologies (such as the instant photographs of the album's title and the venerable TDK D90 cassette of No Electronic Devices).

Elsewhere, there's the near-perfect suburban romanticism of Barkly Square, the wry self-cautionary tale of Everyone Loves Me and the closing Winter Ball - where sometime Zhivago Davey Lane (yes, the You Am I one) offers a splendid Brian May-inspired spiral for the guitar break.