Native People – Tapes ★★★☆☆

Take That? Oh no, too indie.

Tapes takes the indie blueprint and throws in some clean cut boy band sounds with a dash of subtley funked up guitar and some chilled out synths. Its still very much generic radio indie though, albeit going for the more indie-dance side of things. It sits very comfortably in the middle of the road and never really mixes up the pace.

There are a couple of interesting remixes thrown in at the end here, and weirdly these are the highlights for me. Adding two chilled out dance versions of opening track Tapes.

Don’t get me wrong though, Tapes isn’t a bad EP. There’s nothing particularly wrong with these songs, but there’s no risks being taken, no experiments. It’s all very airy fairy mid paced indie that I’ve heard a million times before. But all very good if you like that sort of thing! But not interesting enough to hold my attention…

★★★☆☆

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