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Robin Webb discovers stylishly icy pop from Automatic
Stones Throw
Released: 26.09.25
An icy pop affair savoured and loved but never thawed out, this is the trio’s third album of aberrated tunes designed to brood, move but never tarry. Lazy reminded me so much of Altered Images I couldn’t get it out of my head, in fact the whole album is equally infectious; frenzied, hinting at 70s proto-electric post-punk.
Country Song reverbs, percussively Numan-esque; Is It Now? bristles with anxiety and a motorik beat. It’s funky, full of contrasts where lyrics shiver you into an awareness of our complicity in futile, puerile politics and environmental exasperation, while the auto-pulse urges you to motion. Closing track Terminal is a stylishly persistent groove that places a perfect stop on this classy cold convocation.
