After 2021’s Golden Doubt, the shared-singing, indie-guitar jangly-pop quartet from Melbourne’s LP is a sensitive but cynical, beautiful but painful finding-love-after-grief LP displaying musical influences such as Galaxie 500 and The Pretenders. There’s a flipside to every song from the thrumming wistfulness of opener Never Be Lonely (“All I ever wanted was a friend with benefits”), Pink Smoke, into the darker, more shoegaze hues of More Lost. But a definite highlight is the fabulously strong strumming and defiantly strong melody of of Apparition with its owl masks video, and also a former Song of the Day. The precise click rhythm, of the bittersweet title track, the Pretenders feel of If Only, and the rousing Fake Flowers (“for the lonesome … there’s no turning back when you see the cracks”) are also tracks that have a gentle but powerful emotional grip. Sorrowfully uplifting. Out on Merge Records.
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