Los Angeles Smokescreens have a playlist at the foot of their Spotify page. On it they lay down the recipe for what they cook up on their records, ingredient by ingredient. You get The Clean. You get the Chills. Close Lobsters, Television Personalities, The Wake, Monochrome Set, Orange Juice, New Order, Go-Betweens, Pastels, Servants. Pretty much every set of pale white boys who picked up a set of guitars and strummed them earnestly since the early Eighties.
It has to be said that sometimes on their second album Used to Yesterday they follow the template laid down by this tradition a little too slavishly.But in moments on the record when they hit their rhythm they're capable of an effective jangling momentum.
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