Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Loophole ( Blue vinyl ) 17/5/24

from shack and the strands to the pale fountains and the red elastic band, michael head has bewitched, enchanted, bewildered, and entranced us with his subtle indie pop poetics. if you’ve been keeping up with head’s resurgence over the past 10 or so years, you’ll know that he’s in a prime purple patch and ‘loophole’ eagerly grasps the baton from the critically acclaimed ‘dear scott’, continuing the gorgeously affecting odes to life and death that could only have sprung from this merseysider’s romantic heart.