London’s Divisionists has been teasing us with incredible singles reminiscent of Teenage Fanclub and Matthew Sweet, essentially refueling the power pop sounds of the ’90s with a modern day feel. Though\u00a0 they’ve only been around since 2010, they play like seasoned vets and embrace psych-rock and folk sounds among others on this first album. <\/p>\n
\u201cSay Can You\u201d starts the listen out perfectly with ’90s alt-rock guitars and soft yet rugged singing that\u00a0 would have fit in perfectly on 120 Minutes between songs from The Lemonheads and Bob Mould. \u201cFraction Of Grace\u201d follows and brings the tempo down with a more dreamy, laidback affair, and things become even calmer with the lo-fi Sebadoh like feeling of \u201cAlone.\u201d<\/p>\n
As we get towards the middle of the album, the band’s psych-rock influences come through, starting with the mostly instrumental, hazy \u201cDream Landscape\u201d and punctuated with the folky, spacey \u201cPale Blue Eyes,\u201d which is a fantastic version of a tune by The Velvet Underground. \u201cColours (Song For A Spaceman)\u201d is where a sharp turn occurs into ’70s folk feelings, though there’s plenty of otherworldly sounds to be found, and \u201cLittle Margaret\u201d brings us back to earth and right into some Tom Petty similarities. <\/p>\n
The band gets even more exploratory near the end with the driving lo-fi indie rock of \u201cAll Fall Down,\u201d where horns and frenzied finish make this a standout track, and \u201cFreedom\u201d brings in vocal harmonizing to an airy, jangly tune. The album exits on the seven minutes of \u201cWe Must Be Careful,\u201d which pulls their vast influences into one collage of melody and meanders in and out of busy, louder moments and lulls of quiet tunefulness. <\/p>\n
If Neil Young grew up listening to ’80s college rock, it might sound like this. As far as debut albums go, Divisionists has pieced together a solid effort here, weaving bits together of some of the best genres of the last few decades. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10184],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-45316","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-divisionists","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45316"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}