Album Review: Unity by The KVB

Listening to The KVB's latest album is a bit like playing ‘spot the influence’. Various combinations pop up throughout Unity, a collection that sounds like a mashing-together of several bands, and it's a guessing game as to which blend Nicholas Wood and Kat Day will use next. Overall, their sound doesn't stray far from the core values that have typified the now married duo's sound, which melds shoegaze with psychedelia and electronica, but each of the 10 tracks conjures up visions of others at every turn; maybe that's not such a bad thing when you see the list of who you're reminded of.

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For this seventh album it's very much a case of not fixing something if not broke, though there are minor tweaks such as dual vocals for the first time, though we remain firmly in the realm of breathy, sometimes barely there vocals colliding with synthisized electronics with slashes of post-punk ….

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