A welcome return by the British indie trio with a soaring, smart, dream-filled number with notes of 60s garage rock, classic 70s rock and 90s US indie, lyrically and inspired by the writings of William Burroughs, and heralding their upcoming album Gained / Lost, due out 27 February 2026 via Bella Union. The band explain: “This song was influenced by the book My Education: A Book Of Dreams by William Burroughs, which is a kind of dream journal, but written in clean, almost hardboiled prose. Alice takes place in a dreamworld. Burroughs might have called this world The Land of the Dead. There is a promise of ice cream in a world between life and death, a kind of holding station. Everybody’s spirit returns to the universe. If this was a movie it would be directed by David Lynch, and it would be black and white. Musically, the song has the kind of open-hearted optimism of a Daniel Johnston or Buddy Holly. There’s a multicoloured joy to the music, and a black and white strangeness to the lyrics.”
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