London Grammar - If You Wait
In all of 2013's emerging British talents there's been at least a finite element of trip-hop lurking about, and it's taken until September for the year's most prominent example of to appear. But when you see people calling them a mellowed-out version of the xx (how mellow is it even possible to go, damnit?) there's the concern that this might just be that record of the year that everyone won't shut up about but is just inescapably boring (for 2012's, see Alt-J). The Nottingham trio of Hannah Reid, Dan Rothman and Dot Major seem to have arisen out of nowhere (besides a feature on Disclosure's album earlier this year that I believe is now a single) and only missed out on a chart-topping debut thanks to those pesky Arctic Monkeys (who would probably pip Adele to the post at this stage in their careers), so just what exactly is all the fuss about? It's immediately clear that the drawing attraction here is Hannah Reid's warbly voice, sitti...