Peter Bjorn and John: Gimme Some – review

(Cooking Vinyl)If Peter Bjorn and John's 2009 album, Living Thing, was the sound of a band beating a belligerently experimental retreat from the mainstream, its follow-up suggests they have decided the mainstream isn't such a bad place after all. Gimme Some is, accordingly, a pop record through and through – albeit a spiky one in places, unsettled by the aggressive guitars of (Don't Let Them) Cool Off and surprisingly abrasive lyrics to Black Book ("Your music sounds like shit") and Breaker...

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