On their third album The Electric Soft Parade have a produced a stunningly eclectic work, covering a variety of styles and eras of alternative music.
'Life in the Backseat' manages to sound like Stereolab at their most straightforward, and then the next track 'Woken by a Kiss' is all warm fuzzy shoegaze.
Then we're into indie disco territory on recent single 'If That's the Case Then I Don't Know' a track that wouldn't have been out of place on the Killers' Hot Fuss.
The album follows this blueprint throughout, but whilst its sound is wilfully diverse, an underlying loyalty to producing catchy hook-laden songs still remains.
In this commitment the band's closest musical relatives are Super Furry Animals, and whilst this is no Radiator it is still an interesting and highly enjoyable work.
***½ (Three-and-a-half stars out of five)
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