The Singleman Affair in the NME....

The Singleman Affair
Let’s Kill The Summer
8/10

‘Heat Fatigue hits Chicago’

The Poptones label’s transformation from House of the Grot into something infinitely cooler continues with The Singleman Affair, otherwise known as Chicageon Dan Schneider and his downbeat blend of ‘60 folkness and shoegazing drones.  Yes, like much of this kind of thing, Schneider occassionally sounds like a manic-depressive Sufjan Stevens sitting cross-legged in a field full of dragonflies in about 1969.  But the Far Eastern spin of ‘Is Madras Morning’ and the way that ‘Dragonflies To Find’ recalls Leonard Cohen at his most lugubrious make ‘Let’s Kill The Summer’ an album that’s curiously easy to treasure.  More like this please.

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