With Luxembourg's new CD coming with snazzy cartoon caricatures on the back, not to mention some recent critical acclaim, you expect something pretty substantial in terms of smart indie ingenuity, and Sick Of DIY delivers with a bucketload of pastiche and a smattering of shimmer.
Though immediately evoking a chiselled Morrissey with vocal repertoire and, erm, The Smiths with sparkly guitar soundscapes, David Shah's oufit have more than enough of an original lyrical bite to punch with the big boys. Sick Of DIY has a confident, intelligent and even literary air to go with its subtle guitar invention, Shah singing of love and confusion in a way that reminds of indie in its most classically romantic guise.
While Sick Of DIY floats in immaculately-wrought splendour, B-side Changing Trains reveals a mournful and soulful type of vigour that points to more grand poetic pastures that the band could explore, but with the noir type of grace that characterises these songs, they just might have hit gold already.
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