Da Brasilians

Description

Roots but never retro: this first record, sunny enough to reconcile, in front of a sunset on Santa Monica beach, Midlake and the Happy Mondays, Fleet Foxes and Sébastien Tellier, even shows some fine boldness in production (the endings of Revolution and Please Stay, the groovy arrangements of Greetings From America). Flirting just as much with America as with English pop flamboyance (Janis, I'll Be Blue), this first album captures the intoxication of beginnings in a more modern bottle, and stands out both as the radiant summary of the past decade and the promising preface to the story to come. Johanna Seban Les Inrockuptibles