My favourite Estonian band. Well this week anyhow. Pia Fraus date back to 1998 which puts them somewhere in the veteran category. These all come from their latest album, Empty Parks, which came out a couple of weeks back, a set of eleven songs which skate along with graceful, melodic assurance.
The songs are very 'Indie', if that's a broad enough umbrella. I'd chuck a few of the standard reference points their way to locate this to a more precise degree; Broadcast, Stereolab, Cardigans, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, (at their quietest), Astrud Gilberto. Does that paint a broad enough picture of what's going on here? Anyhow the record is just lovely and I'd recommend a trip to Tallinn to catch them in their natural habitat.
It's a real charmer this one, full of understated Shoegaze grace. The first three tracks should be enough to draw you in, if you're a fan of this kind of thing, and there will still be eight tracks to go and relish. Pia Fraus don't shout because they understand that a whisper is an altogether more effective approach. The fragile will inherit the earth, we can but hope. And when they come round to making the movie, this band will be on the soundtrack. Smashing!
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