MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES
★★★★
Stats’ debut, Other People’s Lives, was a 2019 Classic Pop Album Of The Year, and this may well pursue it into this year’s hallowed rankings, though Ed Seed’s two key reference points remain pronounced. LCD Soundsystem remain audible in euphoric opener Come With Me and the pounding Kiss Me Like It’s Over, while the far slower Old Flames has some of the poignancy of their New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down. Pet Shop Boys’ shadow, meanwhile, hangs over the adrenalised Out Of Body as well as the discoflavoured The Truth Is Naked, as much thanks to a shared ear for programming as Seed’s high-pitched voice and droll delivery, which sometimes echo Neil Tennant’s vulnerability. But, though Bowie influences the closing If Only and Sparks reside in On The Tip Of My Tongue, Stats boasts unique qualities, not least in the album’s conceptual nature, which addresses Seed’s Welsh youth, and in Isobel Waller- Bridge’s (Phoebe’s sister) modest vocals, notably on the playful, acoustic Innocent. Seed’s lyrics, furthermore - including Innocence’s “It’s something you lose/ But don’t want back again/ Like your virginity” and Kiss Me Like It’s Over’s “So kiss me on the mouth/On the apocalypse” - confirm this as more than another statistic.
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