It has been nearly four years since Melbourne quartet The Sunday League released a sophomore Make It What You Want album that spent much of the next few months being the soundtrack to my South African summer.

Now finally back with a Grass Yodel album that threatens to become enough of a grower to usurp its predecessor for brilliance, this release sees the act become somewhat more forceful whilst never allowing the extra power to dilute any sense of their hitherto glorious melodic.

As such, Wrong Side of Time, Borderline, Kicking Around in the Cold, and Luck courses a sense of Fleet Foxes meets The Decemberists indie folk through a jangle rock core that simmers with a sense of finely developed gusto that borders upon the ‘perfectly shambolic’ that tends to augment the best of alt rock acts.

Similar intensity and quality can also be found in Not Here For Ecstasy and Whatever It Takes, which persuade the jangle rock to step aside as more plaintive, languid Tom Petty-style vocals are caressed through a Guided By Voices style laconic, jangly fuzz.

However, it is when the tempo reclines in Don’t Leave Me, Don’t Look Don’t Tell, and Never Let Me Go that the album truly excels, as a superb mixture of Mark Lanegan’s baritone and Lloyd Cole’s croon are thrust through the center of gentile, jangled riffs and atmospheres to create an inimitable beauty.

One of the most underrated acts of the decade certainly need more love!

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