Bordeaux duo Watoo Watoo released their fifth, and apparently last album, Modern Express, earlier on this year. It's a compact and infectious record, easy to pigeon-hole as Indie and equally easy to like. Squaring the circle between Stereolab, Broadcast, St. Etienne, Felt and Francoise Hardy it's full of neat and beautifully written pop songs.
This stuff will never entirely go out of style though it's been round the rails in different guises many times before. Watoo Watoo have been together for over twenty years and so qualify as craftsmen. It's to their credit that the songs sound so fresh, like a long married couple who have never fallen out of love. Modern Express parks itself behind Say Sue Me's Where We Were Together and alongside Plastic Shoelaces' eponymous debut as the favourite old school Indie record I've heard this year.
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