Blog: Isaac Ashe's Sound Advice

○○○●● IT'S clear to see who's on Beat The Radar 's radar on To The City From The Sea . Because the Cumbrian quartet play jangly indie pop that sounds so familiar you could stick a bunch of flowers down the back of its trousers and call it a long lost Jarman brother. The Smiths and The Cribs loom large throughout, and there's a running game of spot the derivative - with hints of Buzzcocks on Telephone Conversation and early Blur on Stars among many others. Not that it's a bad thing [...]