Their fifth album for 4AD in a relationship that has now spanned a dozen years. "Puzzles" sees the band moving forward in an unexpected direction; these songs are more immediate and poppy than anything they recorded before. The album is filled with the life-affirming light of Mojave 3's Cornish home - splashed with sunlight and the heady sparkle of summertime waves. "Puzzles" is infectious and downright fun, a fact reflected in the exuberant artwork supplied by artist/film director Thomas Campbell (whose f...   [ read more ]

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The opening cut from Mojave 3's third and most varied album opens with a simple acoustic guitar melody and even simpler piano stylings, but In Love with a View hardly heralds a return to the austere beauty of the group's debut effort Ask Me Tomorrow. Instead, it builds layer upon layer of new textures from steel guitar to backing vocals, culminating in a droning crescendo evoking the dreamscapes created by Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell a lifetime earlier in Slowdive. The B-side houses an electric versio...   [ read more ]

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Not a cover of the Elvis Presley hit, Mojave 3's Return to Sender instead possesses a kind of casual, offhand charm recalling some of the more lighthearted moments from Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes sessions, right down to the woozy, good-timey chorus that guides the song out. Which begs the question of why this likable but slight number was selected as a single over more substantial Excuses for Travellers fare like the haunting My Life in Art -- it exemplifies few of the qualities that make the record so gen...   [ read more ]

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