Throughout a tenure of well over 30 years, this Dynamo Stairs project of Switzerland’s David Liso has always been ‘the act’ to which a lazy amateur blog hack such as myself could turn to perfectly describe that glorious mid- to late-80s sound where post-punk was gradually morphing into jangle-pop.

As such, tracks best represented on this Hope Is The Last To Die album by the title track, Divide, the simply sublime Feast, and Mother Of Vinegar all submerge beautifully jangled riffs, the most subtle of gaze inflections, and dulcet chime through the melodic post-punk atmospheres of The Wake and The Chameleons.

Even when the sound regresses into the darker sounds represented by Pornography and the Three Imaginary Boys era, The Cure on Won’t Be Unknown, Bridge Over Tonic Water, and Crooked Teeth, there still seems to be that extra jangly insistence that courses its way through the darkness in the same way that the sound of The Church was so invigorating.

Dynamo Stairs is an act for those who like their jangle-pop perfectly bruised and burnished by post-punk’s darkness and continue to be the ‘mainstay maestros’ of this aesthetic with this superb release.

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