BRONCHO are back! Some six years since the release of Bad Behavior comes album number six in the shape of Natural Pleasure, and it’s a most welcome return for the Oklahoma indie rockers.
Leading with new singles Funny and Imagination, the album is breath of fresh air with a lighter sound than their previous efforts. For a band that are renowned for reinventing their sound, they swing for the fences and hit a Dream Pop home run here.
Key to this are the delicate and dare I say, feminine vocal stylings of front man Ryan Lindsey, his voice easily mistaken for that of a female, echoing the tone of Victoria Legrand of Beach House or Molly Rankin of Alvvays, quite the company to keep.
There’s a levity and self-deprecation to the lyrics that fans have come to expect from BRONCHO, Lindsey alluding to stealing his girlfriend’s jokes as referenced in a recent interview and expressed in Funny; ‘Well, I don’t know what you told me, Cause I told my friends and they like me, You’re funny, funny, funny’.
Album stand out ‘Think I Pass’ is typical of all the band’s best qualities, catchy guitar hooks, elegant pop production and ear worm vocals destined to stay stuck in your mind long after you’ve unplugged your headphones.
You may think you haven’t heard them but the chances are you’ve stumbled across one or two of their tracks having been featured on some of the biggest cult TV hits of the last decade, but there’s no time like the present to check out Natural Pleasure and get lost in some blissful listening in the sun.
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