Blog: Song, by Toad

I really like both of these bands individually, but as all-time indie arranged marriages go, this superficially perfect match doesn't quite dunk the biscuit, as far as I am concerned. It's fey and wan and awfy, awfy twee but honestly it lacks bite. Imagine a cover of some of Belle & Sebastian's dreamier material, but without any rhythmic zip, melodic inventiveness or vocal bite. That comparison material is pretty close to the limit in terms of being just a little too breezy for my taste, and this album is a considerable distance the wrong side of that particular [...]

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