Fanfarlo | Pop review

ULU, LondonOn paper, Fanfarlo sound indistinguishable from a lot of other bands. It's not just what the London-based quintet play – a gentle indie folk-rock that nods variously to sea shanties, waltzes and the dawn chorus – but how they play it. Instruments are passed around like batons in a relay race; Cathy Lucas and Leon Beckenham are particularly restless, shuttling between keyboards, violin, trumpet, mandolin, glockenspiel and melodica, while frontman Simon Balthazar splashes ...

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