The Da Vincis

This is going to happen more and more as I get older, isn’t it? Yet another extraordinarily talented band who are younger than me. Much younger. They all have the best part of a decade on me, which is bloody scary. Yet despite my default setting of hating them for that very reason, I can’t because they are so good.

Part of what makes interesting is how they seem to have not grown up with the standard indie influences shaping their sound. These aren’t kids that grew up with Nirvana or even Pavement. This is a band that whose tastes seem to lie in 60s lounges, crooners from the good ol’ days, and little quirks that may go back further still. There’s a modern sound in here too, but it takes a backseat to nostalgia to a time when they weren’t even born.

If I have just one quibble, it’s the name. ‘The’ bands are finally going out of fashion, and the ‘Da Vinci’ part just recalls shitty Dan Brown novels at this point. It doesn’t just doesn’t suit at all. Maybe that’s the point though. Through our expectations from the start.

See You Tonight is out now via Olympic Records. How on earth did no one name their label that sooner?

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