Get Away, the opening song from Alabama band Belle Adair's latest record Tuscumbia is a glorious throwback. Starting off with beautifully realised group harmonies, you're minded immediately of Teenage Fanclub in their Bandwagonesque prime, channelling the spirit of Big Star's still quite timeless early Seventies records. The album drives on from there, all chiming melodicism and yearning, open hearted songsmithery. While Fanclub, Big Star, Byrds and Beatles inevitably haunt every groove of this album, it's lovingly and skillfully crafted, Belle Adair, (appropriately a 'B' band themselves), have written those songs those others somehow never got round to just for you.
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