The Keys - 'From Tense To Loose To Slack' (Too Pure)
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By: Toby L
In an age where The Coral are kings, The Keys should, must be princes. 'From Tense To Loose To Slack' is a timeless, woozy, druggy waltz of skidding guitars, Doors/'60s psychedelia and Havana street-market trumpets, complete with Hank Marvin twanging and - even - a 'cha-cha-cha' outro. It's humbly enchanting stuff.
Like the rest of it: 'I Believe My Eyes Are Over Exposed' is a lo-fi, woeful piece; 'There's A Place' is a Gorky's Zygotic Mynci-enlaced wonder in understatement; and 'About Time' is a loveable, Evan Dando-y strum, replete in its dextrously naive, charming vox.
Thus, to (mis-)quote an early-'90s, one-hit Euro-pop wonder from the Urban Cookie Collective, this Welsh duo have got The Keys, and they've got The Secret (to, quite possibly, unlocking your heart). Get in line.
Artists in this article: The Keys
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