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Album Review: Panama - Always

There’s some points of distinctiveness he/they should maybe push for to become something more individual; something they can build into music of note.



The classically-trained background of leader Jarrah McCleary means there is a structure and care in these constructions. There's a soft underpinning piano and/or keyboards to most of this, but while the title track is a subtly soft anthem of polish, it maybe gets more interesting and varietal elsewhere. In How We Feel – with its phased little motif and feeling of being a journey somewhere – and the even more gentle house electronica of Destroyer, there's some points of distinctiveness he/they should maybe push for to become something more individual; something they can build into music of note.