You just had to love them, this slightly different boy band from Leicester who, against all odds, announced “Life’s A Beach” in 2021. On the second album, too, the quintet around the talented word styler Murray Matravers cheerfully turns old-school, R&B and hip-hop influences through the wolf of current sounds and also unpleasant insights.
The line between comedy and nonsense remains thin. And behind it lurks a pound of melancholy between growing pains, skinny madness (“Basement”) and wonderful “Crocodile Tears”, also in view of the times. “It’s all downhill from here,” Matravers proclaims in “Memory Loss,” vaguely recalling, “I think I lost my virginity under a tree,” adding wryly, “Now, that’s some achievement.”
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