Honeyglaze

★★★★ Honeyglaze SPEEDY WUNDERGROUND. CD/DL/LP

Youthful South London trio record enchanting debut in three days.

The latest addition to producer/label owner Dan Carey’s choice Speedy Wunderground roster, Honeyglaze deal in dead-pan bedroom indie of no little vision, much of the magic stemming from vocalist/guitarist Anouska Sokolow’s beautifully naturalistic voice. “I look nothing like Madonna/More like an ’80s horror film”, she sings on Female Lead, a tale of hairbleaching gone awry. Like Shadows and I Am Not Your Cushion, it’s the tightly arranged stuff of perfect, two-to-three-minute pop, but there’s a proggy, math-rock exactitude to the similarly fine Half Past, and another chance for bassist Tim Curtis’s tasteful melodicism to shine on Burglar’s motorik-goth outro. Sokolow, Curtis and drummer Yuri Shibuichi will be on tour supporting Wet Leg by the time you read this – a fitting pairing, since Honeyglaze, too, deserve your rapt attention. James McNair