LPS definitely have more than one string to their bow: their latest album, Seduce Yourself (Discorporate Tape), casually sways back and forth along the border between sticky seventies and glamorous eighties; pompously glam-rock at its peak, with some sweet spacey synth-led New Wave, early post-punk influences, it sounds something like David Bowie meets Ariel Pink meet The Monochrome Set, with still a touch of the distorted screeching guitars and smashing drums used and abused on Billy Callous, and a series of caricatural accents on Roxy Muzak, for a touch of comedy.
An exciting, generously overproduced effort back to front, teasingly dandy, Seduce Yourself is available to download by ‘naming your price’ on LPS’ bandcamp page; Fairway to Hades, their third album this year, is announced for November (probably once again something completely different), and you can see the band perform tonight (7.28) at The Kenton Club. Tracy Mamoun