Richard Littler | Scarfolk Annual 'Dead Cult is a return to form

is a return to form for Philadelphia bandleader Jake Ewald

and even their closest contemporaries like Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine didn’t plough such a distinctive furrow as theirs

The Homesick have made a record impregnated with impressions that still fit neatly under the pop umbrella

” “Chlorine

The album title’s nod to Scott Walker - “the big exercise” is a phrase pulled from a passage in Walker’s biography ‘Deep Shade of Blue’ - isn’t an aberration either: straddling pop sonority and the cacophonous fringes is something well worth aspiring

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