Silver Columns – 'Yes, And Dance' review
Coming on like a Scottish Hot Chip, Silver Columns’ have mined pretty much every genre of popular dance music over the last twenty years, added a spot of bedroom indie melancholy to the mix and called it new. So it is that Columns throbs and bubbles with the sound of mid-90s minimal techno, Brow Beaten recalls the high-camp sleekness of electroclash and Warm Welcome has shades of two-step, but every track is topped, often wonderfully incongruously, with low-profile vocal mutterings – a trick that adds warmth and genuine confessional soul.
Indeed, Heart Murmurs is a gorgeous little love song, not a dance record at all, regardless of how many arpeggiators are oscillating at its close. Understated, witty and curiously infectious, Yes, And Dance is charming stuff indeed.
9/10
