Lightspeed Champion: Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You | CD review

(Domino)Dev Hynes's transition – via his Mike Mogis-produced debut – from dance punk saboteur of Test Icicles to an ­English Conor Oberst is continued on his second album as Lightspeed. And what the songwriter (he's recently written for Solange Knowles and X Factor's Diana Vickers) does – simple country-twinged, piano/guitar music – he does very well. Take Faculty of Fears, with its odd ­little hints of Queen, gaunt strings and ­references to Pythagoras, ­exemplifies everything that'...

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