Dutch Uncles’ third album is easily the Manchester band’s most accomplished effort to date. ‘Out Of Touch In The Wild’ backs up the quintet’s brainy indie-lad posturing with a slew of living, breathing songs. ‘Flexxin’ is breezily confident, while ‘Godboy’ sounds like it’s been fighting with Foals over the Steve Reich student cookbook (though a couple of tracks horribly overcook recipes from the above). And ‘Bellio’’s fizzing synthpop recalls fellow Mancs Everything Everything with the zany dials turned down to a six or a seven. Top one, sorted, etc.
Alex Denney