Cool and yet so close

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Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sims create with their casual, but also warm and accessible voices an incomparably intense mood, which is accompanied by the ideal tidy and almost avant-garde instrumentation.
Clear guitar (Croft and Baria Qureshi), individual strings, played in pure tube way resounding vote, cleanly zupfter Bass (Oliver Sims), simple beats (Jamie Smith) and just such keyboards (Qureshi). The latter can heat partially almost subterranean bass regions. In no case is heard of them ever all at once, but always in the selected voice combinations.
The result is an album with a wonderful semiinstumentalen intro and 10 songs spectacular aesthetic that act cool and sublime, but at the same time create an eerie intensity and closeness.
Not quite innocent probably this is that the production of the London XL Studios is very warm and despite their lack of excitement extremely dynamically managed.
Although some songs are short, they develop their own suspense and small fine melodies. Although the album as occupying a very typical, own and coherent sound aesthetic in itself, it remains exciting from start to finish.
Here one believes even a 'cure' to hear similar harmony, however, exempt from all former bombast and all intervening dust. There sounds in a quiet moment a voice by Massive Attack. Or sometimes sounds a guitar by Chris Isaac and please, that's great. But always this music is overall somewhat new, independent and now it comes: its minimalism timeless.
This is what makes also the difference to the potential models of the mixed doubles pair of London, South West London as they stress out. There's nothing too much would the age, no sound so frantically modern than that he could survive soon. The New Wave has developed a new reference, albeit out of competition.
The album is short with a good 38 minutes, but not a minute too short and more importantly, no too long. Register here for just about everything seems to have been done correctly.
The album has a very mature, because such a concentration on the essential characters normally required, which are up to every trick. Often caused by reduction Although elegant chic works that remain to be sterile and cold to enjoy permanently. All the more astonishing that these four young girls and guy deliver something confident, yet unarrogantes is. The latter you should keep next to their art, so their music keeps this great soul.