Perhaps the 2020s are not really the place for the Daisies style of warped lo-fi jangle-pop and its mixture with the quirk of indie-pop of yesteryear.

In a decade whereby the jangle-pop genre seems content to attach itself to whatever the vinyl-buying hipsters have decided is hip today, anything that is not directly related to the anglophile 80s and 90s inferences of the genre seems to be largely overlooked by everyone except those that can fully embrace proper alternative jangle-pop.

For the Daisies essence is just about as perfectly obtuse as it is possible to imagine, with tracks best represented by the triple opening salvo of Glistening, We Don’t Need Money, and Down in the Keys, as well as Blue Cowboy, offering the oblique juxtaposition of Portishead’s spatial trip hop, Cindy style lo-fi jangly riffs, and the quirky glitch-pop of the Young Marble Giants to a sound that should head everyone’s categories of ‘original’ and strangely beautiful.

When the gloriously weird subsides a tad, this band shows that they still have all the musical assets to excel. Here, Oh Marie and the simply superlative standout of Is It Any Wonder, crossing the boundaries of folk-pop whilst always keeping one foot in an area that will always be so uniquely Daisies.

Great Big Open Sky is the sixth album by this Olympia, Washington based foursome and they have never felt quite so vital.

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