Thomas White - I Dream Of Black

The Electric Soft Parade’s Thomas White unveils a whole host of beautiful airy vocal driven indie for the first half of the album and finishes with some provoking touches of instrumental brilliance.

Serving up a light starter of vocal led tracks that don’t fall far from The Parade’s tree, the sitar Brit-Pop instrumental on the ‘interlude’, with its rinky-tink piano is charming and hard to avoid playing again and again.

Marrying the sublime instrumentalism and vocal promise is unfortunately only a fleeting attainment and although that’s a little over critical it’s hard to avoid admitting. Although ‘Wartime Love’ comes along and briefly links the solid sounds and soft tender vocal. Somewhat Richard Swift in stature, it’s truly delightful bygone feel is orphaned in a field with no one to hear its screams for similar promising tracks.