As if I havent gushed about this album enough, now comes time to add it to my top cds of the year, and this really is the best album of the year, hands down. It may seem like a slightly challenging listen at first, but I havent met one person yet who hasn’t said after repeated listens that it’s perfection doesnt unfold before them. On paper its easy to say mixing doo-wop, shoegaze and ‘indie rock’ together creates something completely unique, but I think if we placed a bet, you would not be able to find anything that sounds like this band. To me they sound like a bright neon light in a gospel-tinged southern bayou on a cool foggy night. Yup, thats sums it up.

“’Return to Cookie Mountain’ is beautiful to within a millimetre of its weird and wonderful life, despite sounding like a lurid Technicolor Sesame Street gone big screen. In short, to be unashamedly decadent, this is the gospel for the summer. A majestic epiphany, a spellbinding antidote to World cup anthems and the guilty pleasures of the Euro-pop that’s soon to making its way back from the Med, along with lobster tans and herpes. By contrast to such tawdriness, ‘Return to Cookie Mountain’ is fascinatingly dense, soulful and utterly divine.” – Playlouder