This Gift : Sons and Daughters

Do any bad bands come from Glasgow? Scotland's urban center has an incredible musical batting average: Teenage Fanclub, Belie and Sebastian, Mogwai, Franz Ferdinand. Sons and Daughters are the latest Glaswegian sensation. The group's sophomore effort, This Gift, produced by Bernard Butler of the '90s Britpop outfit Suede, replaces the folkier tendencies of its predecessor with a more raw sound.

Songs like "iodine" suggest sonic pop art that's both jagged and symmetrical They rumble like scrappy punkabilly, yet start fires with ironic-retro girl-group gasoline. Most beguiling is singer Adele Bethel's siren call. When her melodic caterwaul careens with co-front person Scott Paterson's howl, their chemistry evokes a bluesy tension.

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