Ground Control Touring

Door-to-door heartbreak salesmen Nature TV peddle an elixir of jangle indie and melancholic yacht rock. Having amassed a catalogue of seven EPs – each a branch of perennial, lovelorn dream-pop folded through classy sonic interior decoration and swift compositional turns – debut album Unlucky for Some continues the theme of heartbreak in high-fidelity.

Like few others, Nature TV are able to missile misery at your dopamine receptors via compositions so rich they should have trust funds. It’s an almost impossible tightrope walk that only the most agile of songwriters can sustain. The result is their cleanest and leanest collection to date. An LP that hums with meticulous attention to detail yet feels as woozy as taking downers in a hot tub. An indie-jangle party band at the height of their powers, except the party has ended and they’ve been tasked with soundtracking the clean-up. Someone passed out in a patio chair barley clutching a smartphone, cigarette butts mushed into empty cans, a door pulled off its hinges, the pool now semi-septic, rain streaming down the windows, and everyone has work in the morning.