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The Isles - Eve Of The Battle (Melodic)

UK release date: 16 January 2006
The Isles - Eve Of The Battle

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This first UK release for New York's The Isles comes courtesy of Manchester's melodic records - a fitting place to begin given the three-piece's debt to a certain Mssrs. Morrissey and Marr.

The Isles produce fine slices of urbane melancholia replete with jangling guitars and delicate vocals - Eve Of The Battle is less a roaring call to arms than an early white flag. The tune is unobtrusive (in a good way), easy on the ears, with really strong harmonies that call to mind The Thrills or Death Cab For Cutie. B-Side Flying Under Cheap Kites indicates consistent quality and a lyrical virtuosity of which their forebears would be proud.

So we welcome you, The Isles, to Britain. You may not be groundbreaking, set-the-world-alight types, you might never play to football stadium crowds, but we should love you all the same. Eve Of The Battle, appropriately, leaves a sense of great anticipation.


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