Minimum Chips - Lady Grey
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Minimum Chips make dinky, bouncy, sunshine electro-pop with shadowy autumn basslines and shapes dancing behind innocent female vocals and jaunty synth melody. Vocalist Nicole Thibault sings haunting lullabies, echoing the humble vocals of Broadcast's Trish Keenan.

The Broadcast resemblance is most noticeable on highlight track Eating Out, which sounds very Tender Buttons, but with gritty electric guitars smothering the impossibly gentle vocals.

Unlike many releases of its kin, Minimum Chips' Lady Grey manages not to be samey; the tracks are individual and easily distinguishable from one another, with particular instruments highlighted to separate tracks, like the guitars in Eating Out and the Hammond organ in Black, nestled comfortably alongside the glockenspiel in Sleepy Pea.

Although not spectacular, Minimum Chips achieve much their counterparts do not; they manage to build tracks which move in a world where many stay still. The mixture of soft progressive electronica and upbeat alt-pop is always a good recipe, and Lady Grey is a particularly good batch of cheeriness to welcome the autumn in with whilst waving goodbye to summer.