Album Review: The Morning Benders – ‘Big Echo’ (Rough Trade)

A second album that still sounds a bit too familiar

Kaleidoscopic guitars, swooping strings and luscious, lilting harmonies? Hmm. [a]Grizzly Bear[/a]’s Chris Taylor has his production paws all over San Franciscan quartet The Morning Benders’ second full-length effort, and while ‘Big Echo’ has more than pastiche to offer, a great deal of it still sounds a bit too familiar. ‘Cold War (Nice Clean Fight)’ is sun-kissed pop like The Drums would make if they weren’t so damn annoying. Meanwhile, ‘Hand Me Downs’ could easily be an Avi Buffalo, um, hand-me-down, while Band Of Horses’ lawyers should have a right good listen to ‘All Day Day Light’. Basically, everything sounds like this at the moment.

Rob Webb

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