The Stanford Family Band - For Your Listening Pleasure
This is an unexpected treat.
Brighton four-piece The Stanford Family Band unveil their debut EP For Your Listening Pleasure just in time for the changing of the season.
Sounding unlike anything else in alternative music right now, the tracks sound charmingly out of their time.
While other acts claim to be influenced by the great acts of the 1960s (or at least used to), The Stanford Family Band’s music is steeped in the decade.
Most prominent are the lush, Beach Boys-esque harmonies around Elliot Stanford’s lead vocals, including on opener Your Chair where they are front and centre.
The track conjures up evocative images of the group stood together accompanied only by a battered old piano before the full band kicks in. Ever-so-slightly psychedelic, it’s a warm welcome to their world.