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Tallies
Tallies
(Fear Of Missing Out Records)
★★★★
WITH the very young founding members having met on a sound engineering course at college, Toronto four-piece Tallies cite The Smiths, The Sundays and the Cocteau Twins as key influences.
The melodic jangle of indie pop on their self-titled first album certainly echoes these seminal 1980s bands but arguably they sound most similar to their Canadian cousins, the better known Alvvays, especially on tracks like Have You and the gorgeous Mother. “My mother taught me to ask questions/She said that boyfriend will not do,” frontwoman Sarah Cogan sings on the latter.
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