Arts

Album: Together We're Heavy

Jude was right.

I've been living with The Polyphonic Spree's new album for a week now. It's astonishingly good.

For a while I thought the 'Spree would remain a vivid memory of 2003 (especially at Greenbelt, where this picture was taken), that they'd not quite reach the same height again. With Together We're Heavy though, they deserve to soar much higher.

In some ways it's not as immediate as The Beginning Stages of The Polyphonic Spree. It's not just Texans bouncing to simple songs about the sun. However, all it took was two or three listens and I was captive to it.

The only disappointment? No matter how much I wish it were so, the track Mild Devotion to Majesty isn't The Polyphonic Spree's contribution to a Graham Kendrick tribute album.