Album Review: Hoy - Brigitte Bardot

Sweet and inoffensive, this release feels drifting rather than punchy and draws on retro sunshine-pop bands such as The Mamas & The Papas through cutsie vocal techniques such as the round. But they mostly pull it off. Creeping bass and discordant tuning sounds give the opener/title track some edge. Otherwise it revels in pastiche through whispers of French and high, female vocals that evoke catchy '70s bubblegum pop. The use of strings gives the EP some folksiness, especially in feel-good acoustic track, Get Some Sleep. They play Northcote Social Club, 28 Nov; The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine, 30 Nov.