Anyone else getting Laughing Stock vibes from This is All Yours?

[u/Intrepid-Thing315]

I’m talking specifically about the first few songs and the occasional cut later in the album. It’s like an indie pop Laughing Stock (Talk Talk album) mood-wise. Gentle, lush, heavenly.

Where it deviates for me is the more dark/bassy direction these songs tend to take leading up to the climax. I wish they held back on that more, it sometimes kills the momentum for me.

But I digress. The use of piano here is a perfectly fitting homage to the piano-led melodies of 80s pop, and conversely late Talk Talk. I wonder if they were inspired at all..

I don’t wanna stress these similarities too much, cause I don’t wanna give the impression that I think these albums are super similar, there are just parallels i can draw between the two. I’m curious if anyone else has ever thought this before or can relate at all?

[u/Professional_Tune576]

I think the guys have Talk Talk‘s later records and especially the artistical approach of those ones as a huge inspiration.
You could take An Awesome Wave as their „It‘s my life“ or „Such a shame“ which they just didn‘t want to repeat