Elk City – New Believers
Elk City are another landscape band. One whose album I will happily chuck into my music library and, although I’ll probably rarely deliberately seek them out, I’ll be most happy when the randomiser throws out one of their songs.
New Believers is a sunny album of enjoyable, harmony-laden twee guitar pop. The Roaring Machine may actually have been the reason the word twee was invented, so Liz may have to correct my terminology, but all those ooh-la-la choruses and that strong 60s girl-pop influence sounds pretty twee to me.
Apart from having one of the prettiest covers in a long time, there’s something equally pretty about the music that just about distinguishes it from a run of the mill Sunday afternoon pop record. The presence of former Luna guitarist Sean Eden may have something to do with that, as there are definitely some nice touches in the guitar department. By and large, however, New Believers is unremarkable; but it is tunesome and somehow very satisfying at its best.
At times some of the slower songs drag a little, but by and large this is a pretty enjoyable album that I am slightly surprised to find myself liking. Maybe it’s the bedroom eyes and enigmatic, somehow rather French look of the lass on the cover. I always was depressingly shallow…
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