The third LP and first since 2015 for the London indie band presents a more thoughtful, melancholy, and often slower set of songs than their more youthfully exuberant previous releases, but includes strong, reflective material, such as I’m Not Crying You’re Crying. Opener When Saturday Comes is a dreamy piece of synth electronica, lead single Catch You On The Way Back In begins as if it is about to launch into a frenetic pace, but drops into a slower choruses, while Do You Wanna Drive is an acoustic inflected, wistful number, on which frontman Fred Macpherson sings, appropriately: “It’s funny how time stutters, it’s funny how it flies/ Children of the 60s telling us to slow it down/ ‘Cos they’ve watched too many hippies / Getting buried in the ground.” And “The car won’t start .. all the best ideas got left in the dark … sometimes you can’t even get out of bed … was it the page …. the creeping feeling of the empty”, we hear on rippling synth closing track An American Warehouse In London, summarising the wistful, but moving melancholy overall. Out on Moth Noise.
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