One minute they were trading faintly awkward and tricksy electronic beats and
bristling with more static than a balloon rubbed for several minutes on a woolly
jumper and the next they’re trading the kind of licks from commonly associated
with prickly guitar bands like Editors and foaming with the fury of a tempest-tossed
British Sea Power. But it’s still implausibly gorgeous.
January sees the release of new single, ‘Soon’ – a tumultuous
and kinetic force of nature that twinkles as brightly a bagful of magic dust
and gives you the kind of giddy feeling you get when opening your Christmas
presents.
They were on the verge of breaking up but now they’re not, their internal problems
finally being resolved after a blistering five-day stint in the band’s Grondal
Studio in Sweden. The result is second album, ‘Rox’ – recorded
live and due for release on March 22nd.
