Album Review: Hollow Everdaze - Cartoons

Artistically speaking, pop art is an apt description of the style and approach that Hollow Everdaze have near-perfected on Cartoons.

A decade into their career they're still uncovering lush, sun-kissed pop nuggets that swoon, sway and deftly swagger through '60s eccentricity, '80s/'90s British indie and right up to the modernism of a band such as Spoon. There's a wistful quality to the songs yet they invest just the right amount of grit and depth to keep them grounded. The distorted guitar on the title track and Flat Battery, the bass and reverb on Running Away, and the violin on Same Old Story and the warped psychedelia of Still Ticking all add fascinating tangents and layers to their sound. This is sophisticated pop music par excellence, endlessly inventive, devoid of schtick and all class.