The press release promises that this Gothernburg-based act who’ve received coverage in Mixmag and Grazia produce ‘pacific-coast shimmery pop with a rich legacy of French music much closer to home, from chilled out Gallic titans like Air and Phoenix.’ And while the three tracks here do possess their share of pop moments, easy vocals atop bouncy yet laid-back electro backing constructed using gentle 80s-syle drum machine sounds and fuzzy analogue synth tones, it’s a tad too cheesy to be entirely palatable if you’re the sort of person who doesn’t adore ELO and ABBA. And, er, I really can’t say I’m big on ELO or ABBA, and that’s putting it mildly.
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‘A Tree’ sounds all too much like Peter Skellern in places for me to really dig. ‘Do It!’ has a proliferation of ‘doo-doo-doo’ harmonies and a weird and most incongruous guitar break, and the Tobias D. Treehouse Remix of ‘A Tree’ brings the drums to the fore and gives the number a lightly dancier edge, but really doesn’t add a great deal. It’s all harmless enough, but all rather cabaret and the fondue flavour is unnecessarily cloying.
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