British Sea Power--the Queen's proper musical messenger--has been making underrated albums and resolutely British pop music for the past decade. The band's arcane lyrical subject matter can be strange at times, but their music cribs from every corner of the Britpop realm (60's pop, 70's glitter, 80's mope rock, 90's anthems) and results in accessible, albeit angular, rock music. The D Man still swoons over second album Open Season. Scott Wilkinson may have the perfect English rock voice, and he sounds fantastic live, as he demonstrated during a show The D Man caught at Jones Beach, Long Island, a few years back.
Valhalla Dancehall is the band's fifth album and represents the breadth of the band's sound, with soaring rockers, post-rock gloomers, and R&B-influenced ditties. Check out the tongue-in-cheek first single "Living is So Easy," a pop-infused departure from the band's oft-heavier material.
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