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Brothers Tom and Alex White last released an album as Electric Soft Parade in 2007, their third effort ‘No Need To Be Downhearted’. Since then, the prolific pair have worked on various other musical projects, returning slowly to ELP over the last two years. Now fully back up and running,…

7.5/10 To call a psych-pop album “derivative” would be to completely miss the point. However, it is also something that happens all the time. Bands that write in this style, for the most part, are not looking to change a whole lot about it, and while many non-fans are sure…

The opening song from the new Electric Soft Parade album sneaks in the line “And now it’s back to work / as if I never left”, but while it’s been seven years since No Need To Be Downhearted came out the White brothers never quite got around to leaving. Since…

Almost inconceivably, it’s been six year since the last album appeared by The Electric Soft Parade and much has apparently changed over that period of time for one of Britain’s most underrated of bands. “Idiots” showcases a more stripped back approach to 2007’s “No Need to be Downhearted,” which verged…

**** ‘Now it’s back to work, as if I never left,’ sing the absurdly talented White brothers, acknowledging a six-year quiet spell. The single Brother, You Must Walk Your Path Alone, glides along on a Bacharachian melody; The Corner Of Highdown And Montefiore builds to crashing heights; and Never Again…

7/10 There are few more heart warming pleasures than hearing a new record from a much-loved band who were previously assumed to be on something of a hiatus. It’s been six years since The Electric Soft Parade’s ’No Need To Be Downhearted’; the intervening years having seen solo projects, personal…

6/10 Returning after an electric soft hiatus of six electric soft years, The Electric Soft Parade are electric soft back! ‘Idiots’ initially invites a description – winsome, sparkling, Beatles-y – that sets alarm bells ringing, but the album thrives when the brothers White play to their strengths. These include restrained…

Brighton brothers Alex and Thomas White reconvene their band after a six-year break, rejuvinated after gigs celebrating their tenth anniversary of Mercury nominated debut Holes In The Wall. And they return with a truly sunny disposition. Summertime In My Heart and The Sun Never Sets Around Here highlight their harmonies,…

Following last months delectable, downbeat ‘Brother, You Must Walk Your Path Alone’, Thomas and Alex White turn up the volume this time, cartwheeling through verse after breezy verse before the chorus of the hugely catchy ‘Summertime In My Heart’ kicks out the jams. Coming on like a hybrid of Hamburg-era…

Tom and Alex White were just teenagers when they released Holes In The Wall, Electric Soft Parade‘s Mercury-nominated debut; mere slips of lads whose accomplished sound was always at odds with their tender years, especially in stellar singles like Silent To The Dark, There’s A Silence and Empty At The…