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Fact #117960

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The Elwins release their second LP, Play For Keeps, on Affairs Of The Heart Records, in the UK.

Full article:

I can’t speak for you, but this is precisely what I think of when I use the term pop music. The Elwins hail from Keswick, Ontario, and offer the same joie de vivre, curiosity and quirkily imaginative freewheeling tunes that you’ll find in Vampire Weekend or The Shins, rather than in the mechanical meanderings of Rita Ora or Nicki Minaj. Mailman Matthew Sweeney writes songs about all the usual stuff - trouble with girls, good times, bad times and dancing - but he makes it all sound ridiculously uplifting, so you find yourself singing along at the top of your voice to the soundtrack of his wild mood swings. They’re ridiculously optimistic but then, why not?
(Review by Johnny Black, first appeared in Hi Fi News, 2015)