Vanilla Swingers -
the album
CD exclusively
from Rough Trade
"One of the
most amazing debut albums
of the last few years" - Happy Days Are Here Again
"4REAL in the same way Richey
Edwards
once was" – Condemned To Rock 'n Roll
(album of the year, 2008)
"Musically and lyrically this
album is a gem" - Salad
Days Music
"Like a storybook, with
each song featuring moments that
should keep the listener
enthralled throughout its entire duration." - Obscure
Sound
"Theatre shot in
widescreen, a polished,
tortured slab of 21st century melodrama."
- How
Does It Feel To Be Loved
"High
concept art-pop with echoes of St. Etienne, Black Box Recorder and
Momus.. Tuneful, obscurely literate, just
the sort of thing there
should be more of in pop." - Narc Magazine
"an impressive debut - 4/5" -
Scotland On Sunday
"A
loose love story of boy meets girl, boy and girl traverse the fourth
dimension, boy loses girl, three decades later, boy gets girl back.
Navigating urbane pop is
nearly as difficult as paradox-free time travel. Vanilla
Swingers
pull both off, keeping its concept from collapsing into rock-opera
excesses while crafting cerebral
pop tunes." - Aversion.com
"A truly beautiful record. Vanilla Swingers
sucks you in and
it's almost impossible to escape this record's grasp; the sweet sound
of seduction has never sounded so dangerously good." - First Coast News, Florida
"What might be the secret weapon is
how what initially sounds like a gentle demi-folk act turns rapidly
into a quite varied sound. There's everything from snaky
post-punk guitar chime and understated MCing (in classic Neil Tennant
style!) on I'll Stay
Next to You to the slow, dub-meets-synth string
crawl of The Way She
Walked out the Door. Perhaps the common
thread is how fluid their stylistic shifts are within each song as much
as song for song." - Allmusic
"Die neuen Black
Box Recorder?"
- Coast Is Clear