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Spearmint
Holland Park
(Via Via Wiaiwya and Hitback Records)
★★★★★
THIS London quartet would sound equally at home in a pub as in a concert hall — their symbiotic, intuitive understanding of 26 years is beguiling.
The album is about band member father’s prog band in the ’70s: “They never made it, so it’s down to us to tell the story.”
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