Boat

The Dutch quartet undercut their perky, grunge-lite melodies with just the right amount of pop-fuzz aggression.

This is guitar music at its most charming and robust

The Dutch quartet Pip Blom spent a couple years releasing home-recorded songs, mid-fi EPs, and the occasional single, all the while refining and honing their '90s indie rock-loving sound into something sleek, sharp, and powerful.

Both familiar and authentic, Pip Blom's debut album Boat is a triumph; when you have a melodic impulse that shines as brightly as this, you can’t really go wrong.

It’s no mean feat to retain all the intimacy and rawness of early demos when working with a producer in a kitted out studio, but Pip Blom have smashed it out of the park.

'Boat' by Pip Blom, album review by Adam Williams. The Dutch band's full-length comes out on May 31st, via Heavenly Recordings