It's rare to hear music that sounds truly unique and that stands out as genuinely different. For this reason, 'Best Ones' is a seriously refreshing zesty burst of musical flavour. I first played it a while back, and thought 'wow,' but then for various reasons didn't get around to playing it again or writing the review until now. In the intervening weeks, I've been exposed to Everything Everything, and that has taken some of the shine off the discovery of The Bridgeheads, but only just.
It's all in the vocals: Tomas dAsK's vocal delivery on 'Best Ones' rises from a Weller-esque stop-start enunciation to a quaint falsetto, not dissimilar to that of Jonathan Everything. And, Like Everything Everything's songs, 'Best Ones' is busy and uptempo. That's about where the similarities end, though. 'Best Ones' is built around nagging post-punk guitars and has a tetchiness and about it, simultaneously sparse yet robust, and underpinned by some hectic, jittery percussion that's bursting with a rare energy.
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'Pi' slows things down a bit, a spacious and layered min-epic that drifts, and somehow manages to combine post-rock with eastern promise in its delay-drenched guitar motif, that slowly builds before fading out in a coda of falsetto and echoed guitar. It might not be immediately obvious, but given room to breathe, it soon becomes apparent that this is breathtakingly good.
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