After critically lauded ’97 debut The Angel Pool, The Autumns became a big draw on the US college circuit, and could now do the same in the UK. Mixing silvery guilar patterns with raging feedback and FX pedals, they successfully harness shoegazing’s euphoric tendencies, coated with Snowpatrol/Keane anthemics (they’re well equipped in that department by singer Matt Kelly’s soaring falsetto). Searing drama rock with potential.
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