BBC Latest Rock & Indie Reviews: Laroca - Valley of the Bears
"An album doubtless more fun to perform than to hear."
3 / 10
Knob-twiddling new ageists Rob Pollard and Olly Wakeford first announced themselves in 2006 with ‘Friends In Far Away Places’, a record evoking adjectives like ‘cinematic’ and ‘chillaxing’ among wayfaring folk of the critical establishment. To those epithets we can now safely add ‘stultifying’ and ‘toss’, with the duo lending a session-musician sheen to proceedings thanks to an expanded live retinue of theremins, Rhodes and congas. Not that there’s anything wrong with this kind of genre-hopping electronica but, Christ on a gap year, at least Lemon Jelly had flair and a glint of mischief in the eye. Short of announcing, “all our operators are busy – your call is important to us” midway through every song, this could scarcely be more dull.
Alex Denney
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