GOSPEL

Let's dispense with the usual bum-flufferies - the London electro-pop duo's third single is far and away the best track around this fortnight. Pourquoi? It could be down to their ever-improving production skills, the same portentous grandiosity gradually building into a typical Gospel popgasm or it could be that singer Beth's voice is becoming more like how you wish Florence Welch would sound if she'd just stop SHOUTING. Comparisons with Fleetwood Mac and The National are a little adventurous but Ain't Gonna Let You In has all the musical luminosity of Purity Ring, London Grammar and Polica rolled into an emotional four-minute roller-coaster of a song that, after two minutes or so, jettisons the sort of killer melody that could stop speeding traffic. Or at least slow it down.

This review also appeared also on Flipside Reviews.

Paul PLEDGER
04/07/2015