From the cutesy antifolk of their 2009 debut Yeah So via the darkly romantic indie of 2011’s Paradise to the retro soul of 2014’s Complete Surrender, Sheffield duo Slow Club have made switches of style their essence. This time around, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Charles Watson and Rebecca Taylor found their ideas diverging, and turned to Spacebomb Records kingpin Matthew E White and his house band to help them forge a unified record. Spacebomb’s rich, melancholic country-soul sound suits them, particularly on Taylor’s powerfully raw In Waves and Come On Poet and Watson’s smoothly spellbinding Ancient Rolling Sea. Still, you feel that Slow Club’s own best version of themselves is yet to come.
