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Celebrating the 10th anniversary of indie label Full Time Hobby brings electro-folk moments to savour, and missed opportunities
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by Ian Gittins via Electronic music | The Guardian
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of indie label Full Time Hobby brings electro-folk moments to savour, and missed opportunities
Diagrams main man Sam Genders only just got back from a British Council residency in China, and it shows. At this 10th anniversary show for indie record label Full Time Hobby, his 11-strong live band are distinctly under-rehearsed, as he wryly admits: Half of them only met each other yesterday.
Diagrams imminent second album, Chromatics, is a lovely, vivacious affair, teeming with warmly poetic Hot Chip-style electro-pop, but the nuances and textures of songs such as You Can Talk To Me and Phantom Power are buried tonight. The nervy Genders needs to relearn that, sometimes, less is more.
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by Ian Gittins via Electronic music | The Guardian
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