Jonquil: Point of Go – review

(Blessing Force)From the Oxford scene that begat Foals, Jonquil were, until last year, a shoegazing sextet with two albums to their credit. Now a fourpiece, they've condensed a range of textures – jerky guitars, hazy harmonies, skittish electronic beats – into something alt-poppier than previously (though singer Hugo Manuel keeps the shoegaze/chillwave flame alight with his occasional side project, Chad Valley). Point of Go bespeaks close attention to detail: harmonies are on-point (a partic...

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