The Gold Standard play lush, harmony laden guitar pop which is all at once as beautiful, as visceral and as varied as the disparate elements that sometimes inspire its creation: contemporary indie rock on both sides of the Atlantic, late seventies post-punk, the melodramatic excesses of the eighties and the occasional snippet of fuzzed-out shoegaze. Here you’ll find no gimmicks, no concessions to prevailing trends and certainly no insults to anyone’s intelligence with hollow claims that the TGS sound “cannot be pigeonholed”. Please listen – carefully, casually or however you wish – and make up your own mind.