I can’t remember what the older City Calm Down tracks sounded like, but this one is in a space that invokes the New Order/Joy Division revival wave of the mid-2000s more so than the progenitors themselves, and that’s not an entirely terrible thing. Solid, but not spectacular, it’s still a damn sight more palatable than Editors.
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