POZI - Smiling PoolsPozi are the sort of band to tackle the creative cycle of deconstruction and rebuilding with relish. Second album Smiling Pools is testament to that. An LP that sees them at their most expansive yet, it follows a gradual swelling of their sound across two EPs proceeding the urgent, self enforced minimalism of their debut album PZ1 in 2019. The trio of Toby Burroughs, Rosa Brook, and Tom Jones quickly established something of a foundational template on

Portsmouth

collaboration

“Harking back to the liberating songcraft of The Beatles but with a jagged edge

warm expansive arrangements

Predating the sonic atrocities of punk and no wave in one cruel swoop

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Where once was Superwolf

and Yorke's processed voice on the title track will come as quite a shock to diehard '70s rockers who spent the late '90s deifying Radiohead as heirs to the Pink Floyd throne

there’s an intricate flurry of detail

plus singles and B-Sides

Young Marble Giants and The Raincoats with influences from contemporaries and peers like Folly Group and Dry Cleaning to create something that is undeniably their own

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