Foster the People: Torches – review

(Columbia)Recent summers have tended to throw up a hit that's slightly indie, slightly pop, and completely unavoidable. Think of Too Fake by Hockey, Young Folks by Peter Bjorn and John, or Monster by the Automatic; often these groups find it impossible to sell another song. Foster the People look likely to be 2011's version of that phenomenon thanks to Pumped Up Kicks, which amounts to little more than a bassline and a chorus: "All the other kids with their pumped-up kicks/ Better run, better r...

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