July 17, 2014

YOU TOOK WHAT YOU WANTED TO TAKE.

London newcomers Vaults arrived on the scene in dramatic fashion with masterful initial offering “Cry No More” last fall, and this week return with their debut single proper on Virgin after this spring‘s promising set up track, “Premonitions”, on National Anthem. “Lifespan” starts off with an ethereal, slightly unhinged church-bell twinkle, but within seconds it’s washed over by the track’s definitive, static, pulsing alarm, which hovers like a mirage behind the majestic denunciation of the melody and the boom and clap of the beat. The ringing wall of synths retreats only for the chorus, which vocalist Blythe Pepino delivers like a plaintive bullet, refusing to resolve either the structure or the words: you took what you wanted to take, and yet you never wanted nothing from me. If you’ve been missing Florence Welch’s unbridled flash and yearning — and you have; who hasn’t? — then look no further.

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