WHITE LIES
AS I TRY NOT TO FALL APART
PIAS
★★★
More usually found making doomy pop from the Depeche handbook, for album six the arena-filling trio make an unlikely diversion into 80s synthfunk. It’s not a complete reinvention for a band who have previously snuck in happy experiments among the gloom, and have a smart humour behind the façade. But there’s no doubt the first half of this album is more playful than the band are known for. Trouble is, it’s less convincing than usual, with the desperately shiny Step Outside resembling a demo for a later Sad Café album. You suspect the band are trying to recreate the feel of the Blitz dancefloor in 1980, but there’s a staged mood to the finger-clicking Breathe that’s more redolent of a 1982 one-hit wonder’s second single. Only on the giddy I Don’t Want To Go To Mars do they sound like they’ve an affinity for the era – strange, for a band usually so adroit at redeploying the darker Bunnymen tones of the time.
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