(Fantastic Plastic) ****
AS compliance officers tour pubs to make sure we're not smoking, the appositely- named five go mad with the indie rule book.
For every band that takes the rigid guitar-based song structure into new territory, there are legions who are content to take your money for going over someone else's old ground, incessantly.
So, to hear a band pushing every limit in every way is rare. SDLE harness the scale of Arcade Fire, Polyphonic Spree and Sigur Ros and drag it through the hose-down matelot hellholes of Pompey Harbour.
Songs like I Saw Evil and God Damn Broke & Broken Hearted are possessed of a majestic outlook, but tainted by a dark heart.
Uplifting they may be, but there's some deep melancholy here too.
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