Dancer teased their fantastic new album with three singles that make heavy use of a greenscreen. On ‘Just Say Yes’, they play blowup instruments in fancy dress on a speedboat, on ‘Happy Halloween’ they’re perpetually spinning into a fiery vortex, while on ‘Baby Blue’, singer Gemma Fleet is a floating head in space, wearing a party hat. The videos feel like the Glasgow-based band are underlining a manifesto commitment to use small budgets to make something fun, attention grabbing and really quite charming.
More or Less arrives just 18 months after their debut and it’s full of the same bursts of sparkling, jangly pop. Dancer don’t try to reinvent the wheel, instead they draw from a long lineage of Northern indie bands. Songs like ‘Baby Blue’ and…