Cosmic explorers
Simon "Woolfy" James and
Dan Hastie have now been effortlessly blending
leftfield rock, dub disco, Balearica and spacious electronica for well over a decade. Despite this history, they're probably best known for 2008's superb The
Astral Projections of Love (their second full length), an album that twinkled with intergalactic
atmospherics and psychedelic intent.
The Return of Love, their long-planned follow-up, is a noticeably softer set, adding folksy acoustic diversions (see "Electric Storms" and "Cherry Blossoms") and blissful MDMA pop (check "Set Me Loose" and "In Your Own Worlds") to their tried-and-tested star-gazing formula.