Larsen B: Musketeer | CD review

(Old Radio Tunes)A little charm goes a very long way, as the Hertfordshire trio Larsen B prove. Their first album offers a large dose of one of the prevalent tropes of pop/rock in recent years: the kind of non-specific yearning that Coldplay and Snow Patrol turned into huge record sales. But with no big record deal or state-of-the-art studio at their disposal, Larsen B offer a free-range, homegrown take, which leaves them sounding more akin to the past year's new wave of folkish groups. The ins...

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