With the deplorable possibility of Britain departing the EU come the ostensibly onsetting summer months coming to resemble an increasingly likely outcome, and the gradual deterioration of London making the prospect of swanning off to some parochial outpost such as, say, Swanage seem increasingly appealing, even on as grey and grisly an afternoon as this, Arthur Beatrice bring a brightness to allay the capital’s all-pervasive doom, gloom, and the like. Because Every Cell – the third to emerge from the London four-piece’s forthcoming sophomore full-length, Keeping the Peace – celebrates the incredible unlikeliness of being, relishing the life and irrepressible liveliness in each and every one of its 257 seconds as it does so: lyrically, Ella Girardot looks at the innately analogous bodies we all inhabit in a way that’s as reductive as the track atop which she belts out her anatomical rhetoric is irrefutably resplendent, before a bridge that’s as breathtakingly skyscraping as Michel Virlogeux and Norman Foster’s Millau Viaduct hears her lament, “Nothing that I care for shines through any more.” But, faith-restoratively tremendous, she and Arthur Beatrice – best described, for reasons of review-based coherence, as London’s one true remaining diamond in the rough – are really, truly gleaming…

Keeping the Peace will be available from May 27^th via Open Assembly Recordings / Polydor, while Arthur Beatrice play the Scala on May 25^th.