It's difficult to gauge exactly how good a record is when its influences are so nakedly, immediately apparent. Such is the case with French band and their album Meadow Lane Park recently released on Elefant Records. The influence of Stereolab, Broadcast and Saint Etienne pervades it as does that whole sensibility that so inspired them, exotica, the Fifties and Sixties. Mod cool.
It's a good record. Don't get me wrong. But it's not as good a record as Foxbase Alpha or Emperor Tomato Ketchup. Well of course that was hardly likely. Still, if you fancy a trip to a place where the future still seems like a good idea, this is a record with a lot of fine moments.
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