Beat Connection: The Palace Garden – review

(Tender Age)If Beat Connection's first full-length album had appeared two weeks ago, it would have gone down like a barbecue in November in soggy, gloomy Britain. Now, though, summer's belated arrival makes their sunny electronic sounds ideal. Waves of synthesisers crash like warm air; everything from maracas to steel drums to tugging basslines are employed to give The Palace Garden the atmosphere of sun-kissed afternoons and endless beaches. Based in coastal – though hardly seaside – Seattl...

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