The Fat Angel Sings

Finders Keepers Records is basically a guaranteed seal of quality, but it’s rare for one of their releases to have the immediacy, and the hooks that Weaver displays here on her sixth(?) album. Recorded between an old vicarage and Vox Recording Studios in Los Angeles on ‘experimental’ analogue equipment by David Holmes and Andy Votel, “The Silver Globe” will make fans of Stereolab, Broadcast and the Soundcarriers absolutely ecstatic. Summoning a similarly timeless vintage vibe, Weaver exerts more than enough of her own touch to stave off cries of plagiarism. And I doubt that any of the bands just mentioned have a single in them with as much cross-over potential as “The Electric Mountain”, which is absolutely outstanding, and a chart topper in a fair and just world.Outstanding.