The Maccabees at The Dome: 'so much heart and humanity'
Weaving across their four records, from the dappled beauty of Kamakura to the youthful fizz of Precious Time to the full-body catharsis of Spit It Out, a few years away has done nothing to diminish the quality of the band's canon. If only a few of their early peers managed to make it past the inaugural hurdles, then The Maccabees audibly progressed over their tenure; the doe-eyed whistles of early track Toothpaste Kisses wear their naivety with pride, while Grew Up At Midnight, from third album Given To The Wild, is epic and grandly ambitious. The big hitters - a rocket-powered Marks To Prove It and a final encore of Pelican - will easily fill the massive fields they've got coming over the summer.
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