It is challenging to describe precisely what Eyes of Pandora sounds like in simple soundbites and brief descriptions. But it is a characteristic that all the best music swerves away from the obvious and the identifiable, and so this should be seen as a mark of astuteness rather than a lack of focus. Not fitting in is what it is all about; it means the artist isn’t giving us just more of the same.
With their eponymous album, they flit from drifting psychedelic rock to pastoral pop and from a more up-to-the-minute indie sound to folk-tinged poeticism. Whatever they turn their hand to, it always has a sense of the nostalgic about it, but never so much that the band sounds anything other than a thoroughly modern concern.
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