9.5
/Alt-folk, Indie folk, Folk indie, Dream folk, Twee pop, Alternative pop, Indie pop/
Comment: there are up 3 songs performed by the cockney band Lowpines (Oli Deakon and Lyla Foy). A pair of tracks are original ones and one is a cover version of a piece by the Vancouver-based To Be Good Tanyas. However, Lowpines is an organic link between slowcore and twee pop and indie pop/folk appearances - those now and then chiming, a little bit wistful guitars are backed up by slow-paced rhythms and male and female mixed dreamy vocals. The favourite of mine is Heavy Hander, though, the rest of songs used to have otherworldly beautiful (or blissful) touch as well. In the first place the combo reminds me of Mojave 3 (especially an early period of Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell-headed combo sometime in the mid 90s). Highly incisive and suggestive in its mellow nature. Top songs.