The Australian duo's long- awaited follow-up to Since I Left You comes weighed down with eager expectation.
A decade in the making, Wildflower is designed to evoke a road trip, the peripatetic theme obsessively fashioned via station-hopping genre shifts, past-plundering samples and high-calibre guest vocalists.
It splutters into life with underwhelming singles Frankie Sinatra and Subways before developing into a smorgasbord of delights. With more moods than a teenager, the album gathers party hip hop (Biz Markie is gleefully cartoonish on The Noisy Eater), woozy dream pop (fall in love with Colours), sun-soaked psychedelica (Harmony), sliced and diced soul (The Fuzz sampling Sunshine), cinematic segues and upcycled vintage pop (everything else).
Not as revolutionary as their debut but a damn fine and fun ride nonetheless.
