4:46pm Friday 22nd January 2010
By Nick Churchill
BROOKLYN sextet White Rabbits have already impressed the pants off NME and Zane Lowe... now it’s your turn.
Fully rounded, brassy pop structures break down, build up and shoot off at tangents as the Rabbits inject their more high falutin’ moments with some dark dubby bottom end and clipped rhythm guitar.
The songs don’t seem to be attempting to do much other than entertain and when they get it right – Percussion Gun, Lionesse, Rudie Fails – they get it just right.
On the other hand, the closing brace of The Lady Vanishes and Leave It At the Door find the band lost in a dark and eerie wilderness that, while not without its charms, tends to smother the album just when it feels like it wants to proclaim its existence from the roof tops!
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