FIRST LOVE, LAST RITES

Youth, decadence and broken hearts; First Love, Last Rites sound like a best of ‘Now That’s What I Call the Glory Days of Noise Pop, Dream Pop and Shoegaze’. The indie rock band from Umeå, Sweden specialise in glorious, washy chord shapes, thick textured distortions and fist-in-the-air-cry-for-your-crush choruses. ‘Life affirming’ gets passed around the blogosphere for most band that use dynamics semi-effectively, but this group are the dictionary definition.