Album Review: Holidays On Ice - The Luxury Of Wasted Space

Dreamy and atmospheric, The Luxury Of Wasted Space is awash with swirling layers of electronics, guitars, keys and synths. Dean Manning's (Leonardo's Bride) songwriting traverses the melancholy, sweetly simple and, at times, the odd. The whole record evokes a sensation of being suspended between this world and another. Angie Hart's (Frente) guileless Australian vocal is quite grounding, though occasionally at odds with the flow of the instrumentation.

It is soothing and beautiful, and while eccentricities in the production and the lyrics reward multiple listens, the consistent colour and mood drags by the end of the record. A slow grower for introspective evenings.