Laish, indie folk heroes from Brighton, have Danny Green writing and singing songs with a delicate grit, while the band arrange and play with passion and poise. Lyrically these songs are honest – brutal even, and yet full of humour, distilling all from the joyful pleasures of life through to the slow demise of relationships and indeed humanity. Their brief is wide and vague but those who have seen Laish live in the flesh come away exhilarated; sweatier and with an uplifted feeling.

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