Taffy - Deep Dark Creep Love (2019)

Critically acclaimed Japanese indie-pop four piece Taffy return this year with their fifth studio album, ‘Deep Dark Creep Love’.

‘Deep Dark Creep Love’ encapsulates the bands infectious, melodic take on the noise-pop genre, with a greater emphasis on big choruses and backing vocals than their previous work. The material has honed in on that classic Taffy contrast which is musically light but delves into dark places vocally. In tone it feels softer, but effortlessly dips into tracks such as ‘The Bates’, based on Psycho’s infamous lead and his sinister relationship with his mother.

The LP masterfully showcases their renowned dreamy, sugar-sweet inflections, underpinned by Graham Coxon-esque 90’s guitar riffs. A swirl of transcendental melodies, tracks such as ‘Sunless Echo’ and lead single ‘She&She’ are reverb-drenched, held in line by a solid and at times refrained rhythm section. Iris’s unmistakable vocal backed with beautiful, psychedelic soundscapes. The latter also tackles one of the bands more emotionally raw subjects.