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Bombay Bicycle Club

Flaws

British European 'flaws' is the stunningly beautiful new acoustic album by bombay bicycle club 'flaws' is characterised by a delicate heartswelling beauty and lightness of touch throughout those that had bbc pegged merely as an indie band may need to rethink intricate fingerpicked guitar lines and ethereal melodies pull at the heart strings on new songs such as 'my god' the startlingly pretty l'eaving blues' and title track 'flaws' a duet with lucy rose on other tracks 'rinse me down' and 'many ways' skittering drum rhythms and distant banjo lines drift in but in the main it's a naked intimacy that makes these songs dazzle the album's final track 'swansea' is perhaps the most exciting in terms of where bombay bicycle club will take their sound next all the music for 'swansea' was written by jack but uses some of the lyrics from a joanna newsom track of the same name a simple folk ballad that opens with plaintive guitar and vocals swells and morphs into something altogether different as a synth counter melody slowly floats into reverbrich vocals and echo chamber drum rhythms