Part of why I think they're cool is they just hang back and put out EPs when it suits them, apparently. We'd been playing Spotify radio rooted in Mayer Hawthorne lately at work for a change of pace and every time this band came up they caught my ear.

"Futures" is probably my personal favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvO6y9toraw

but "Snake Oil": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YW_XJaHFPw

"I Can't Answer That": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jxRy1AD-f4

and "Cheapest Flight": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCstDa1p_yE

are also great in the background or in focus.

Their influences are all pretty obvious but disparate enough that something just clicks; blue-eyed soul, city pop, subtle synth funk vibes, the cloying nature of britpop lyrics. No idea's original and these guys know it, so they seem to just focus on putting out four songs whenever they feel good about them and so far the results have been super consistent.

Side note: Spotify's PREP-based playlist is damn smooth, too, and digs even deeper into esotericism than the Hawthorne one. All I really know about the band are brief clips from their old label's Bandcamp pages that describe them as something of a UK-based songwriter supergroup full of guys I'm not familiar with but have touched some pretty major albums in the past few years.


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