New band of the day – No 1,039: Vondelpark

This shy Surrey lad and his two mates make a deliciously dolorous sound, like Sade remixed by the xxHometown: London.The lineup: Lewis Rainsbury, Alex Bailey and Matt Law.The background: Yesterday's new band were relentlessly upbeat. Today's act are terminally dour. Ideally, your record collection would comprise music from both emotional extremes, but which would you choose to listen to for all eternity: non-stop happy, or wall-to-wall sad? If it was all as sublimely sorrowful as Vondelpark's ne...

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