"But I've more often found myself hitting play on The Velvet Underground and Rowan, a brilliant and irreverent underground pop album released last summer that's edgy but not irony-poisoned, silly but not unserious, darkly funny and giddily joyful. Its 14 songs, totaling just over 30 minutes, brought the skip back to my step and the song back to my heart like little else in recent memory."
"Fincham and Miles are part of the '00s-fetishizing London scene that tangentially includes fakemink and Bassvictim, but The Velvet Underground and Rowan makes the pair feel like a scene of two: They may give entertaining and slightly crazy interviews, maintain messy Instagram pages, and put on hyped shows with little advance notice-and Fincham may live, or have lived, with Bassvictim's Ike Clateman-but their music is a melange of hyper-uncool early-'10s indie references and pathos-heavy lyrics, delivered with Donny & Marie Osmond-level chumminess."
The Velvet Underground and Rowan is a 14-song, just-over-30-minute underground pop album by Londoners Leo Fincham (Worldpeace DMT) and Rowan Please (Rowan Miles). The record mixes '60s touches — Beach Boys echoes and a chirpy Fleetwood Mac cover — with late-'00s/early-'10s indie references and pathos-heavy lyrics. The duo balance edginess without irony and silliness without frivolity, producing music that is darkly funny and giddily joyful. The pair inhabit a '00s-fetishizing London scene yet feel like a scene of two, known for messy Instagram pages, entertaining interviews, spontaneous hyped shows, and convivial, Donny & Marie-style delivery.
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