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Perfectly Flawed Music And More Polish quartet’s hit-and-miss – and well-named – debut.

Time was when you could expect a band’s debut album to be straightforward, with grand concepts and ambitious suites only following a few albums in. This Warsaw four-piece don’t see the sense in waiting. Trouble is, their vision sometimes outstrips their songwriting abilities, however well they can play. The 10-minute Resolve trips over itself in trying to jam in as many notes as possible, then in just under 21 minutes of the title track they attempt to span a lifetime’s love affair. Lyrically it hits home, but musically it’s overstretched, meandering through several anthemic swells without grabbing you often enough to hold the whole oversized piece together. They fare better on shorter form numbers. Led by a beautifully trickling piano motif, Kingdom Of Silence benefits from a simpler approach to melancholic songwriting; even when it surfs choppy waves of polyrhythm and hyperactive bass, there’s a narrative and melodic thread that keeps you engaged. To close, Flourescent Dreamscape Part Two has a floating, wistful quality as it illustrates ‘unconsciously wandering around this dreamlike reality’. Promising signs, then, even if this time they shot for the moon too soon.