Those of you that have arrived at La Fleur via the sheer jangle-pop brilliance of erstwhile ‘single of the year’ Reni’s Car will not be disappointed with tracks such as Hide in a Song, The Butterflies, and Make Believe which firmly planting hands on notable jangle-pop touchstones such as Elliot Smith, Lloyd Cole, and Jim Nothing.

However, in one of Stoltz’s most expansive albums of recent times, there is a sense of ‘dulcet dank’ that acts a foundation through his ever-present psyche-laden jangle. As such, fuzz-laden, crushed jangly psyche-pop heaves its beauty through Human Event, Losing My Wild, Switch On and Switch Off, whereas the finest parts of the album are represented by the early-era The Cure-influenced jangly post punk of the wonderful Victorian Box, If You Ask, Awake in a Dream, and Eye To I.

Kelley Stoltz has always been able to sidestep easily being pigeon-holed into a genre because of his ability to seamlessly blend aural textures, and this superb album merely accentuates such an acumen adroitly.

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