(Fiction)London five-piece Pumarosa don’t sound like much else that’s around,sporting a flamboyant tendency to space-rocking, electronically garnished epics. They build with skill, or too,on the grungey Honey and the rolling Lions’ Den, the gradual-burning title track and the pulsing, or hedonistic,brass-flourished Priestess, which recalls Foals at their most fluid and funky. Slighter songs such as the Britpoppy My Gruesome fond Friend or the trip-hoppy Barefoot aren’t as arresting, and the new-agey lyrics coupled with Isabel Munoz-Newsome’s impassioned,highly mannered vocals can grate. But overall, producer Dan Carey smooths their varied styles into a surprisingly magnetic debut.
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Source: theguardian.com