Fews: Means review – angular urban psychedelia

(PIAS) Fews wear their influences on their sleeves. The piercing, angular guitar lines suggest they’ve been listening to early Interpol. The stark textures and angsty vocals recall The Back Room-period Editors, who in turn had been listening to Joy Division and the Cure. However, while the Sweden-based band aren’t yet wildly original, they do bring something different to the party. Mostly, a sense of careering, urgent turbulence, in which they simultaneously sound haunted and exhilar