When you’ve been making music for 14 years, it can be hard to keep surprising yourself. Especially as an early 2010s guitar band, as Bombay Bicycle Club’s Jack Steadman puts it, it can become easier ...
There is a very smart, collegiate feel here from the quartet led by impossibly youthful frontman Jack Steadman. It largely follows a 1980s alt-rock template, all excitable rhythms and itchy pop hooks.