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Organic in growth and now three albums into their career, Manchester’s Dutch Uncles pitched their tents firmly in pop’s leftfield with their eponymous first album released on German record label Tapete and then following on with ever increasingly ambitious follow-ups: 'Cadenza' (2011) and 'Out Of Touch In The Wild' (2013) through London label, Memphis Industries.
With each release there’s been no great reinvention, just great progress; as Dutch Uncles grow, mature and refine what they do best... making labyrinthine pop of Escher-like complexity and crystal clarity.
Their latest album has been greeted with pretty much universal, critical acclaim - for which the band's musical appeal and dichotomy is summed up in the following extract from its BBC Music review...
"Where once the choice had to be made between disposable pop fun and beard-stroking academic 'real' music, bands such as Dutch Uncles are, happily for all, rendering such a choice unnecessary, permitting us to both have our pop music cake and (oh so intellectually) eat it."
