Album Review: The Phoncurves - Heartstrings

The multi-layered overlapping harmonies can veer towards one of those overly clever jazz vocal groups just occasionally, but mostly they remember they're meant to be a pop band of the slightly alternative ilk. The title track is the way it probably should work at its best and most approachable, but the more downbeat Motionless is another side – the one that has maybe been listening to old Joni Mitchell records. Not that there's anything wrong with that. There's a sweet lilt across much of this and an apparent joy to what they achieve beyond the technical achievement of it.