![News Added Jan 07, 2013 Sometimes it’s easy to forget that bands established relatively recently are just as capable of leaving a legacy as any of the great indie giants. Not necessarily copycat bands, but definitely bands carrying similar ideals and developing the ideas and sounds of whoever has gone before them. In this tradition […]](https://hasitleaked.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Lockets-Camera-Shy-2012.jpg "Lockets : Camera Shy")
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that bands established relatively recently are just as capable of leaving a legacy as any of the great indie giants. Not necessarily copycat bands, but definitely bands carrying similar ideals and developing the ideas and sounds of whoever has gone before them. In this tradition then, looking at Lockets, it’s nigh-on impossible to listen to their debut, ‘Camera Shy’, without thinking of Baltimore dream-pop band, Beach House. All the signs are there on this album, the androgynous vocals buried under layers of synths, echoes and reverb. Lockets do definitely have more in common with the more rough and ready material from Beach House however, more akin with records such as their self-titled debut, rather than this year’s ‘Bloom’, which is far more polished. The similarities even stretch as far to their line-up: Lockets also happen to be an American boy-girl duo. There are also a few subtle hints at shoegaze, in particular, hints of My Bloody Valentine, shades of which come through during the first half of the album, giving the light songs a slightly darker undertone. As the album goes on, more and more influences can be heard, including even 80s pop on ‘Violet’.
