If the current San Francisco jangle-pop scene of acts such as The Reds, Pinks, and Purples, Chime School, Whitneys Playland etc. is rapidly dragging the city away from its hazy, sun-dappled folk traditions, then Sonny & the Sunsets look set to redress the balance somewhat by acting as the natural go-between that links the new and the old.

Essentially, there is a wonderfully natural summer energy to tracks best represented by Shadow, Signs, Pink Cake, How To Make a Ceramic Dog, and Androids that takes the lethargic indie-folk that the city is famed for and links it to the jangle-pop scene courtesy of twanging riffs that are drizzled with the muted, ‘languid sense of blunt’ that acts such as The Umbrella Puzzles and The Zesty Italians excel at.

However, Sonny & The Sunsets are not content just to reside solely in the realms of dry twang and explore other sounds courtesy of a sense of playfulness that sees Waiting mix Farfisa organ and psyche-encrusted indie-pop, City Life offer sparse jangle-pop that is rooted to a dominant isolated riff and a sense of unmitigated cool, whereas ESP moves headlong towards a The Smashing Times sense of lo-fi jangly obtuse.

As pandemic-written music seems to be gradually dying a death, this album reminds us that great things can arise when time is less limited, and the album in general just feels perfectly aligned with that sense of laconic energy.

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