"...aiming straight for the mainstream."
Andrew Wyatt, Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg concoct thematic, pristine pop, echoing Nineties dance and the slicker hits of this decade.
The duo know their way around a studio - previous work includes production duties on Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ and for Daniel Merriweather (with Mark Ronson). This eponymous debut marks out chart-friendly territory with dumbed down lyrics to match, sang through grating falsetto in ‘Song For No One’ or in the glam oom-pa of ‘A Horse Is Not A Home’.
What saves it from total spuriousness is the undeniable gleam of impeccable mixing, but even that won’t endear outsiders to a sound that’s aiming straight for the mainstream.
6/10
Words by Hazel Sheffield
The duo know their way around a studio - previous work includes production duties on Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ and for Daniel Merriweather (with Mark Ronson). This eponymous debut marks out chart-friendly territory with dumbed down lyrics to match, sang through grating falsetto in ‘Song For No One’ or in the glam oom-pa of ‘A Horse Is Not A Home’.
What saves it from total spuriousness is the undeniable gleam of impeccable mixing, but even that won’t endear outsiders to a sound that’s aiming straight for the mainstream.
6/10
Words by Hazel Sheffield
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