Arthur Beatrice, Since We Were Kids.

Whether this should be because of the creeping omnipresence of keys, synths and so on, or Hamish Barnes’ all-pervasive palm-muted guitars, everything that Arthur Beatrice have revealed thus far from their forthcoming sophomore full-length, Keeping the Peace, has perhaps had more in common with their largely unheralded, if still decidedly sublime Open Assembly Edits, in place of their commensurately superb début, Working Out. And Since We Were Kids is seemingly no exception, its musical components, when combined, recalling the kind of barefaced euphoria that was once encapsulated in such enduring, turn-of-the-century 12”s as The Supermen Lovers’s Starlight and Stardust’s Music Sounds Better With You, but has, alas, rarely been encountered since. But, supremely endearing and demonstrative of ambition unbounded, if “it starts like this,” then it surely continues on stages considerably bigger than that of London’s Scala…

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