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Snipe Likes: An Blonds

Tom Jenkins | Tuesday 16 October, 2012 14:00

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I’ve never quite understood the fetish for cassette releases – vinyl, yes – but cassettes … in 2012 … really? It’s like having a penchant for scratchy primary school toilet paper. Disdain for the format however does little to colour the nigh on perfection of the five pop gems offered up by An Blonds on their debut EP, An Invitation to Love, out now on Twisted Tape Recordings. The Seattle-born, UK based Standlee brothers (Nathan and Ryan, formerly of Team Waterpolo and Slow Motion Shoes, now living in London and Manchester respectively) greedily indulge their love of Elliot Smith and French chill-out kings Air here; the endearingly soft El Mudo serves as an amalgamation of both those influences, prompting all sorts of ‘if only’ collaboration fantasies. Download An Invitation to Love here.

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