Our editor’s pick of the albums reviewed on these pages during the past seven days comes from DMA’s who have just released their third record The Glow – revisit the review and check out the album via Spotify:
“When Noel Gallagher sang Half The World Away he wasn’t thinking about DMA’s – the Sydney-based trio of Tommy O’Dell, Matt Mason, and Johnny Took didn’t form until 2012 – but it’s always sounded like, even from that distance, they were listening intently to him.”
“As proof, their first two albums (2016’s Hill’s End and For Now, released two years later) owed an obvious debt to Britpop-era ennui, a trait that in the UK especially has made them arena fillers and much loved by a tribe who identify less and less with what indie rock comes up with for them.”
“Given that here noticeable musical progress has always been another scene’s problem, the Australians couldn’t have been blamed for some voluntary inertia of their own. But whilst The Glow doesn’t tear up history, it infuses their sound with enough club inspired difference to keep the idea of making new friends a possibility.”