Guillemots are a four-pieceLondon based band , led by Fyfe Dangerfield and named after a curious kind of bird.They play jazz-inflected indie-pop. This is what you can exspect from their debut album” Through the windowpane”:
“Across the length of Through the Window Pane you will encounter an orchestra, and a colliery band, and guitar played with a drill, and a double-bass, and some parping brass, and lovelorn ballads (occasionally played on some kind of ancient Casio device), and a couple of the greatest, oddest pop songs of the decade, and something approaching drum ‘n’ bass as played live and acoustic by idiot savants, and a host of other wonders before the whole thing finishes with a twelve-minute number that starts off like Vanessa Carlton and ends up in the slums of São Paulo leading a samba band through the climax of West Side Story as directed by Lars Von Trier, and which might just be the best album closer ever. Seriously. We are, despite the Pavlovian response of some people when faced with a disarmingly charming white guy playing a piano, not in the same universe as Coldplay anymore.
The title track, for instance, attains one of the most genuinely psychedelic peaks I’ve experienced in years when Fyfe’s vocals are suddenly spun backwards atop a bed of jazz percussion.”
Sounds interesting.They have a nice homepage too Guillemots
