The Alps - The Alps

Review by Anthony Smith

A glance at the sleeve's soft-focus portrait generates some concern. Enshrined in brilliant light, clean-cut Greenwich quartet The Alps are lounging around, kitted out in regulation single-breasted jackets, stonewash jeans and proper shoes. (It's the kind of footwear your mum used to wedge on your feet when all you wanted was the pair of Nikes the Asian lad had on in 'The Goonies'.) Still, I suppose any attempt a band makes to distance itself from the gangs of Morlocks that trawl through our indie caverns should be applauded.»