Album Review

Bastille – Flaws

• 3rd Jul 2011

This emotive and yearning pop-flavoured ditty fidgets and squirms as electronic pulses wave through it, almost as if it is unsure of it’s place within the world.

And a quick listen proves exactly why, as it pulls in many different directions within the three and a half minute running time, it exudes fragility and ebbs and flows with a lo-fi aesthetic, whilst a conflicting sound of arena filling Snow Patrol lyricism and grandiose crescendos build the track majestically.

But the ambiguity is endearing rather than confusing, and ultimately, it is the heart shown within Flaws that wins you over.

Bigger ambitions and intentions seem clear, and should be within easy reach if the mainstream turns it’s ear towards Bastille.