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Amason: Sky City review – almost-great Swedish pop debut

Members of Miike Snow and Dungen feature on this slightly too eclectic set
  
  

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Something for everyone… Amason. Photograph: Tobias Centerwall Photograph: Tobias Centerwall./PR

Curdled easy listening, somnambulant disco and alien baroque pop are just some of the musical guises Amason pull off on their debut. The Swedish five-piece are flanked by greatness (they feature a member of cult psych favourites Dungen and were formed by a member of Miike Snow) and occasionally they touch upon it here. Kelly sounds like Voulez Vous on downers, Yellow Moon could be Feist covering Bette Davis Eyes in the Live Lounge, but the best of the bunch is the delicately Lennon-ish Elefanten. Recalling the smooth pop of DIANA, Sky City is slightly too eclectic to be a truly cohesive work, but it almost gets there.

Watch the video for Yellow Moon
 

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