Swedish 5-piece The Amazing make some extremely unassuming music that sounds wildly out of step with 2018 and more like the kind of thing you’d hear in that weird hinterland between the end of Brit Pop and the emergence of all those bands who sounded like The Strokes.
After what I’m reliably informed was their ‘political’ album Solide Mirage, Royan feels like Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains returning to the spare, lonesome sound of Plaine Inondable. It is spooky and French.
Distant echoey strumming and softly cooed vocals from guy who does that for a living, S. Carey.
The Robin Guthrie remix of Hatchie‘s Sure is one of those things that does exactly what you’d expect / want it to do, that being make an already pretty Cocteau Twins song sound more like the Cocteau Twins.
Indoor Voices is such a great name for a band and You’re My is sounds like it could have been plucked off My Bloody Valentine’s Isn’t Anything, so it has that going for it.
Woozy, distorted slacker-rock from American Pleasure Club and Teen Suicide on this is heaven and id die for it – and I apparently can’t get enough of that chord change in the bridge bit. You’ll know the one.
I’m willing to stake my reputation on my prediction that the fretless bass is back, baby. Westerman‘ll back me up. Confirmation is positively dripping with it, segueing into a middle bit that sounds like the soundtrack to Labyrinth. No not Pan’s Labyrinth… the real Labyrinth. Oh shit!
