Blog: SoundsXP

The Tailors: Come Dig Me Up I recall the Tailors' earlier work as being grittier and nicely hazy but here it's a much more polished form of UK Americana - Aberfeldy and the Magic Numbers spring to mind - while Adam Killip sometimes sounds as genteel as Chris Martin. It moves between piano-led singer-songwriter melancholy and punchier pop but its sheen tends to make it slip past too easily. 'Flying Blues', with its Lemonheads-like [...]