Maps - I Dream Of Crystal

Album review: Maps - 'Turning The Mind' (Epic)

The natural successors to Sigur Ros take the dream out of pop

What is it at the moment with all this half-arsed, evangelical Christian hymn-aping synth music masquerading as dream-pop or screen-gaze? If I wanted to go to church I would do. In full corpse paint armed with a bucket full of petrol, a box of matches and Mayhem on my iPod. This arpeggiated, over-produced, glossy, easy listening music goes so far in the direction of being unchallenging it...

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