by Oliver on March 2, 2024 in EP
Fantasies is a companion piece to the sixth Bombay Bicycle Club-Studio album My Big Day from the previous year and relies even more clearly on the profit that coherently integrated features can bring.
Fantasneeze does this as a nice indie singalong duet with Matilda Mann, springily driven by his drums and bathed in summery naive lightness by sparklingly plucked guitars, exemplarily amiable and catchy. Blindfold flirts with Liz Lawrence as an electronically scurried indietronica reduction over a tidy, minimalist beat and modulates flickering strings to the calm, soft vocals – including a harmoniously resolved flirtation with gentle rock before Willow over fluffy bouncing balls as percussion carries the pace along a cute melody with Lucy Rose: the band from Greater London simply understands how features can bring fresh nuances to a song without becoming the center of its existence.
That Better Now Then as a fast indie rock with a cute post punk rhythm section including canned fanfares, drum’n’bass intermezzo in pop and Rae Morris, the internal development of Fantasies is not interested in a constant development within the EP microcosm and the aesthetic tension that follows makes the entertaining 15 minutes of the record seem more like a non-committal, not really complete collection of songs. But due to the carefree nature of the consistently high-quality material, that’s absolutely fine, at least for fans (who can think of a point in the rating).
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