Many Things by name… and by nature. On the surface, the London-based trio offer up a fine line in sprightly electronic-based indie, opener ‘Holy Fire’ something of a thudding disco banger.
However, they can drop the pace too, as on ‘Chains’, an aspiring and anthemic torch song, like Keane (no, wait!) with a touch more cred. In the main though, they’re unabashedly lodged in the 80s, singer Michael Tomlinson’s mid-Atlantic drawl leading his colleagues with the spirit of Lloyd Cole and the B52s’ Fred Schneider.
But they’re no tribute act, ‘Heaven’ perhaps another stab at the charts, although weirdly, closer ‘What We Are’ starts off as a real downbeat dancefloor-clearer. In all though, they conjure up thoughts of another band neatly summed up by their name – FUN.
