Danish-Brazilian married couple Flavia and Martin Couri have amassed a belting track record of impeccably retro albums so far, drawing heavily from the golden age of scuzzed-up garage rock, Phil Spector-infused teen-pop, guitar-twanging surf music, vintage doo-wop and more. sticks pretty firmly within this archly nostalgic aesthetic, but with a little more richly orchestrated girl-group razzle-dazzle and a little less dive-bar valve-amp sleaze. From the high-octane Shangri Las’s heartbreak weepie to the defiantly sassy liberation anthem (‘ ’), the duo lay on both hormonally charged melodrama and macabre humour in spades.
Their tendencies still get an airing on bluesy stompers like and , but the giddy sunshine jangle of and the revved-up Ronettes swagger of reveal more of their harmony-drenched closet-romantic side than ever. It suits them. Stephen Dalton has been writing about all things rock for more than 30 years, starting in the late Eighties at the (RIP) when it was still an annoyingly pompous analogue weekly paper printed on dead trees and sold in actual physical shops.
For the last decade or so he has been a regular contributor to magazine. He has also written about music and film for and others, including some even more disreputable publications. "The record that proved they really were going somewhere": Therapy?'s Troublegum, 30 years on Foo Fighters cancel scheduled festival appearance this weekend - replacements announced Duff McKagan releases unexpected cover.