Steve Lamacq “they’re harnessing the grace and guts of old-time swing and woozy Barbershop harmonies - packaging it up as the latest indie-disco bread’n’butter” NME “The Crookes’ world is a charming one of snuffboxes, broken tea cups and lovers sharing a gasper under gas-lit lamp posts.’ Q Magazine “They’re more like one of those urchin folk-inflected collectives such as Larrikin Love (RIP) or even Noah & the Whale, with hints of the winsome, lose-some C86 brigade, the Smiths at their twee-est (say, circa The Boy With the Thorn in His Side), the plaintive jangle of the Housemartins, even Belle and Sebastian.” The Guardian “‘By The Seine’ sounds like Dog On Wheels as channelled by Beirut circa ‘The Penalty’. And very beau it is too.” Drowned in Sound |
