The new album from Flamingods, Levitation, is a blast of spry indie-pop. The record, out on Moshi Moshi on Friday, is full of bright stuff that is both dance-able and thoughtful.
Flamingods -- Kamal Rasool, Sam Rowe, Charles Prest, and Karthik Poduval -- make music that, at times, recalls early numbers from The Charlatans or Kasabian, with the elegant "Marigold" charging forward on a great guitar-hook, and "Astral Plane" clattering on a trippy vibe that recalls stuff from the glory days of Madchester, of all things. Elsewhere, "Mantra East" slows things down even as the instrumentation turns decidedly Eastern in style, flashes of early sides from Temples called to mind here. And lots of Levitation mines a similar vein, with varying degrees of success. There's nothing enormously original here, but the package is one that's easy to love, with the tunes largely hitting the kind of grooves that are hard to ignore.
Levitation is out on Friday via Moshi Moshi.
More details on Flamingods via the band's official Facebook page.
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