If the Strokes’ sound had ever grown up it might have sounded like this. So we get the always there motorik but a theme that is grounded in real life and adult concerns. You can feel the existential worries creeping right through ‘The Last Swan’ and then it came to me we were rolling back the years and hearing what Lower Dens used to do – with heavenly chanteuse vocals in there to add even more credence to that comparison. A song that grows in stature until it becomes absolutely essential by the mid-section. KH
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