As beautiful and heartfelt a breakup album as any recently around, this second LP by the London trio is filled with stark irony and moments where things began to go awry, with music that echoes Sufjan Stevens to Elliott Smith to Neil Finn. Those artists come to mind the first two tracks with Easy Tiger one that prepares for what is to come. This style most particularly comes from the voice of lead singer and guitarist Will Taylor. Alongside him, drummer Jon Supran, and bassist Nicolas Hill, joined by collaborators Justin Raisen (Angel Olsen, Yves Tumor), Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief, Bon Iver) and mixing engineer Ali Chant (Aldous Harding). But it is Taylor’s formative breakup that is the focus, and feels like a slow-motion tragedy as, as it moves through the stages of grief and acceptance. Moods and energy levels rise and fall, from the more gentile, Crowded House-reminiscent and very cutting Everyone’s A Winner, or Mistress American, or the heartbreaking There’s A Woman which has a chaotic trumpet solo at the end, while Under The Skin reaches a build momentum that reminds of Arcade Fire, will the bigger sound of Trying To Break Your Heart could be an ELO classic. Perhaps the most poignant of all is the slow, melancholic and ironic Love Is An Accident which refers to the “song that cannot be unheard that feels so right but must be wrong”. Out on Island Records.
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