This is Lincoln based Power pop band It's Karma It's Cools second album following on from the very cool debut album Woke Up In Hollywood, this is equally as catchy and infectious as the debut album. The band play a launch show for the album at the Scene in Lincoln on the 4th December.
The album opens with Homesick a slow intro to the album that leads into All Branches Break In Time a song of change and hope for the empty nest your now living in. As the guitars start to emphasize the vocals that have some very cool harmonies to keep you longing for how things once were, while you still be happy that you're moving on and changing, with the regularity that the leaves fall and return to the trees.
Wildfire Flames tackles the far more frequent blazes destroying lives and dreams, coming from a band based in Lincolnshire they would be more familiar with farmers burning fields on purpose, this has a really nice chiming guitar part that I keep wanting to have time to come back too.
Absent Transient has a slightly fried psychedelic edge to it as they look for that Transient face that now seems so absent like they just vanished gone from your life.
Playing Brave opens a bit like a Prefab Sprout song and has lyrics every bit as involved and interesting as that might suggest, as this rather gentle song works its magic.
Dream Big, Little Giant is a lot more urgent sounding and has some soaring guitar and a feel a bit like Let's Active or Velvet Crush and a chorus that's very catchy indeed.
She Slept With The Radio On is a really lovely song, of love for the sort of woman who does indeed sleep with the radio on, I'd like to think it's as much the film of that name, as well as her favorite radio program, although this doesn't say what station she has on, but as the power pop guitars come in it's most likely to be an good old fashioned indie radio show, as the drums gallop along with the guitars doing all sorts of nifty stuff and you'll have a good image of what she looked like by the end of the song.
The first single Coffee Cup Circles is just super catchy like you've had an espresso or three too many and are absent minded sitting and running your fingers around the circles on your desk instead of doing the work you should, this is a great slice of power pop and very easy to stick on repeat.
Holy Toledo! Seems to be much more about Toledo in Spain rather than the American one, as if they have paid a visit to one of the ancient churches there to gain inspiration and come up with a gently intoxicating vision that's enhanced by a string section.
Guest On A TV Talk Show sounds like a familiar slice of life power pop as they ask questions about what that guest is on about, why they were invited on in the first place, this almost sounds like they had spent too much time watching Loose Women in lockdown, had fallen asleep and imagined they were the guests on the show trying to answer all the questions like Terry Wogan was interviewing them rather than Coleen Nolan.
Universe And Us feels like it wants to soar and doesn't let the listener down, as it fires off into deep space with the assurance that they never forget to keep things catchy, sort of familiar sounding, as the guitars keep reminding me of something that I can't quite identify, but certainly not flying objects.
The album closes with Future Destinations that feels like a suitable outro music to dovetail nicely with the opening Homesick as this feels like a gentle tune that washes over you as the guitars build round a central figure and an insistent snare drum and cymbal that builds to one final crescendo.
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