Golden Silvers
True Romance
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Pop
Record label: XL
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Album Review: True Romance by Golden Silvers
Great, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 4/5
Golden Silvers's superb single True Romance - the essence of Wham's Club Tropicana and Haircut 100's Favourite Shirts distilled into four funky LCD Soundsystem minutes - is not a one-off. This eclectic debut continues the mood of excited rediscovery, rifling through doo-wop, Britpop, jerky dance-pop and Roxy/Bowie glam exuberance with similar success. However, while revelling in the dewy-eyed but wistful feel of 80s new pop and the Beach Boys, it sounds more timeless than retro.
Based on rating 7/10
In Britain, this summer has been a sickly one. The Met Office prophesied a “barbecue summer”, but we’ve had nothing but a whitewash of rain for two months now. It is grey, dank and dreary. People hurry out the grills and steaks at the slightest sign of a sunny day, eager to salvage something before the leaves evolve an autumnal rust, only to scurry indoors burdened with sodden burgers when the downpour belatedly arrives.