First Listen: Slow Club, 'Complete Surrender' — npr.org

hide captionSlow Club's new album, Complete Surrender, comes out July 15. Slow Club's new album, Complete Surrender, comes out July 15. Sheffield, England — the setting for The Full Monty and part of the British equivalent of the Rust Belt — seems an unlikely spawning ground for the wistful pop of this duo with a deceptively static name. But from the youthful, acoustic-and-harmony-based pop of their early material to the more elaborate arrangements of 2011's Paradise, Slow Club's music has always had an upful sheen that's sometimes belied by melancholy lyrics and melodies.

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