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LA Takedown 'LA Takedown II' (Domino)
If you find ornate guitar solos about as attractive as root canal treatment, then LA Takedown’s new album may send you into an incandescent rage. But if you’ve got a predilection for Vampire Weekend’s baroque alt-pop, Tame Impala’s psychedelica or the hazy bombast of M83 you’ll find this a comforting, welcoming destination. LA Takedown describe their music as ‘Baywatch krautrock’, and there’s certainly a hypnotic, sun-dappled quality to both ‘Night Skiing’ and ‘City Of Glass’. At times, the fretwork of guitarist Aaron M Olson takes on voice-like qualities, as if telling the tale of some hedonistic rampage through Hollywood circa 1982. And if you find your hands twitching, don’t worry – it’s probably just Airguitaritis.
7/10
