Every Valley

Toro Y Moi, Boo BooGrade: B+

A sort of post-rock version of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood

A lush, sweeping ode to Welsh miners that peers into the lives of a proud working class that lived and died by the dank tunnels in which they methodically toiled.

Little more than a curiosity for the die-hard fans.

The sense of wider importance to these stories is palpable.

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Following their space race concept album, Public Service Broadcasting bring things back down to earth with the mining-inspired Every Valley.

(Play It Again Sam)

By their own admission, as middle-class Londoners, Public Service Broadcasting arent obvious candidates to musically chronicle the rise and destruction of the Welsh coalmining industry.

Every Valley triumphs thanks to an overabundance of songwriting ingenuity.

Album Reviews: Public Service Broadcasting - Every Valley

PSB’s third veers too close towards infotainment for comfort. Review by Guy Oddy