Big Deal: Lights Out – review

(Mute)For all the prurience surrounding the pairing of 18-year-old Alice Costelloe and 29-year-old Kacey Underwood – prurience they hardly discourage – the thing that first attracted interest in them was their music. This debut album justifies those early murmurings. For a duo whose songs employ nothing more than electric and acoustic guitar, they can be surprisingly robust: the opener, Distant Neighbourhood, and Visions both sound like long-lost alt-pop classics shorn of their rhythm sect...

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