Daniel Treacy of the TV Personalities co-produced, played keyboards and wrote a few songs for this trippy London quartet (named for a 1968 Incredible String Band album), whose sound isn’t as kooky or stylized as his. On the 12-inch EP and the overlapping (all six tracks) album, Emily Brown sings mildly psychedelic ’60s pop in a wispy, imperfect-pitch voice as her three bandmates play droney (but brisk) 12-string folk-rock with cute accents like finger cymbals and harpsichord. Things improve a bit when guitarist Gordeen Dawson sings lead on the modish “Something About Today,” but the disappointing fact is that the group’s image is more colorful than its music.
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See also: Television Personalities