The Maccabees have stripped their ‘Marks To Prove It‘ album title-track down to semi-acoustic form – without losing a shred of its elusive haunting nature.
Have a listen below.
“It’s this unsettling juxtaposition that marks the album out as a true step forward,” our review reads. “The songs are as beautiful, insightful, clever as they ever were, but now they come with a little something extra, like a sprinkling of musical hot sauce just to punch them up.
“‘Ribbon Road‘ is dark and brooding, but also has that wonderfully familiar, upbeat chug of tracks like ‘Can You Give It‘, irresistible and inevitable for a Maccabees record – almost their own Bo Diddley beat you might say.”
“‘Spit It Out‘ has Arcade Fire’s, well, fire which, when pitted against the hazy and wistful shimmer of ‘Kamakura‘, is a wonderful dichotomy. One a moment of absolute feeling, the other merely a half remembered emotion.”
In other news, The Maccabees have invited Drenge as the main support on their November UK tour, which is due to visit Norwich, Cambridge, Brighton, Southampton, Reading and Bristol.