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The delicate haze and plaintive vocals of 'Into The Night' create a wonderful opening and is followed by the highlight 'Stay Gold', which dazzles with its shimmering guitar hooks, early 90s production and colourful boy/girl vocal melodies. A version of the band's 2012 debut single 'Your Doubting Heart' provides a pacey breeze of sweetness, while the melancholic indie pop punk moment 'The Boy From Outer Space' delivers bright harmonies, yet the lyrics could have done with improvements. Although at first the splendid 'I Knew You'd Understand' just seems to blend in with the previous track, its joyous Stone Roses-esque melodies and emotive jangle catapult it to brilliance, before the wonderful 'Run Into The Sea''s guitars ring out beautifully over a sweetly melodic and powerful, atmospheric backdrop, almost bringing to mind a Felt/Jesus And Mary Chain/Ride hybrid. Absolutely perfect for these late summer nights.
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On the very focused 'Up At Lagrage', sunset-lit shoegaze vibes and melodic alt-rock sounds are wired together to create a type of reverb-laden guitar pop that evokes the true indie of decades past, while picking up plenty of influences from more recent years. A delightful slow burning beauty of an album. 7.8/10
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