![]() ![]() ![]() “Bullets on a Screen” and the album’s title track follow more obvious, chorus-led song structures, but don’t necessarily suffer for it. “08:30” opens on drifting choral harmonies before descending into a scuzz of square waves and thrashed-out guitar riffs “Dreams” is just as unpredictable, with its sparse, wiry vocals disintegrating gorgeously into metallic percussion and crunchy synths. The hand-clapped a cappella intro to “People Always Say What They Want” builds with snippets of laughter, studio chatter, and a new instrument joining the fray every few bars, but never loses its shape. ![]() Listening to the album feels like sitting in on a jam session and, despite their intricate, precise construction, there’s an appealing, thrown-together feel to the album’s 10 tracks. But what they really have in common with the Fab Four is their playful experimentation within pop’s otherwise stringent confines, and their buckets of artistic chemistry. The band’s Liverpool home, four-piece lineup, and psychedelic leanings-their name comes from a stoned expedition to the city’s Chinatown neighborhood-may invoke comparisons to the Beatles. ![]()
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