The thing about listening to other people talk about getting older is that life is far from a linear process; whilst you don’t get many 80 year olds snake catching or teenagers boasting that they’ve already retired, these things (probably) still happen.
Spector were ruminating on the march of time right from the get-go – released in 2012, their debut album Enjoy It While It Lasts wrote like the party was over before it began, but they still had tracks the like of Chevy Thunder and All The Sad Young Men in front of them.
Now a parent, on Here Come The Early Nights singer Fred MacPherson and colleagues are on familiar ground both musically – indie rock with all the extra toppings – and it seems also spiritually, opener The Notion plaintively asking the question “What happens after the after?” It’s a melancholy which you’ll find attractive if like them you maybe had to sell your motorbike to fund a pram, but whilst the likes of Driving Home for Halloween, Some People and the title track are all good executions of a well worn formula, if and when Spector go out, they’ll surely need to make a bigger final noise than this.
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