Album review: Kids In Glass Houses – Pink Flamingo

Re-embracing the past led Kids In Glass Houses to this slick new chapter. Having split in 2014, the Cardiff-based heroes reunited last year to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their debut album, Smart Casual, at Slam Dunk Festival. The experience evidently made the five-piece wonder what sort of new music they’d make wearing older men’s clothes. The resulting record, Pink Flamingo, suggests they’ve donned Hawaiian shirts and loafers, not blazers and Hush Puppies.  And while it’s not the kind of effort you’d expect from a band named after a Glassjaw song – more in keeping, in fact, with Daryl Palumbo’s other band, Head Automatica – it’s a deft tinkering with what was already there, pushing the ​’80s influences that characterised their earlier releases closer to the...

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