Luck review Tom Vek's thrillingly unbalanced third album

(Moshi Moshi)

It takes time and graft to sound as chaotic as Tom Vek. A six-year gap divided his debut and 2011's Leisure Seizure , and though his third arrives comparatively promptly, every lurching guitar line and electronic squiggle sounds like it was planned with meticulous care. That could be a problem, leaching Vek's offbeat pop of energy and life, but the more he works dissonant elements into these songs, the more thrillingly unbalanced they feel. Ton of Bricks sounds curt and punkish while pulling in several different directions, and A Mistake is a terrific combination of frantic percussion and grungy sloth.

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