Palm Springs - I Start Fires

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4...according to our Brett on Wed 01 Dec, 2010.

Well I'm glad they've finally admitted to it and I'm sure Billy Joel is too. Everyone stop blaming Billy and all his mates for that bloody fire now, eh? I can't remember hearing these before but they seem to ply their trade in fairly epic and ambitious indie pop/rock with strings and all that. I'm finding it much easier to think of comparisons that aren't particularly flattering - Coldplay, Snow Patrol etc. etc. - than I am for any others (erm.. Tindersticks? The High Llamas? Is Cousteau flattering? I don't even know) but don't let my lack of creative reference points put you off - it's high quality stuff.

Custom House Records
presents two superb tracks
from Brighton's hugely
acclaimed Palm Springs.

"I Start Fires is the sound of a
band flexing their musical
muscles, and is the most
ambitious and self-confident
release to date of this truly
individual and independent of
bands" - Rough Trade

"Mercury Rev and Earlies like
acoustic instrumentation, shot
through with a hefty dose of
Southern US country twang.
Absolutely cannot wait for the
new album" - The Source.

"Powerfully executing the beautiful idea of sounds rich and bare getting to the heart of personal inner conflict- who to love?/how to
love? – this cultish band should be up there, right of Radiohead, left of Coldplay, delivering marvels to the masses." Mojo ****

Tracklisting: Side A: I Start Fires. Side B: Lay The Ghosts To Rest