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'The Evening Light’ (EP/self-released) Pushed just beyond ambient loveliness by gentle marches (see opener ‘Waves’) and faux-epic ride patterns (‘All Thats Gone’ [sic]), yet lacking the post-rock dynamics to lift it from watery vapidness, the problem with ‘The Evening Light’ is that it is caught fatally between two constitutions, consistently failing to commit itself fully enough to rouse any semblance of spirit. For all its pleasantness, it lacks the lustre to induce the blissful resignation of the dream pop it so reveres and, whilst there are hints of euphoria, it’s a nervous toe in the water compared to the total emersion these pieces would benefit limitlessly from. (Leah Pritchard)
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