[The] Caseworker

With each successive release, garage-dreampop trio [The] Caseworker deliver their own timeless sonic magic. Their pivotal 2011 album Letters From The Coast has the feel of a shoegazing Velvet Underground reared by the Flying Nun label – the perfect balance of drone and chime. The follow up release, Voices Out There, saw the band rein in their lo-fi guitar-pop impulses and explore a more expansive, minimal sound, akin to Conor and Eimer Devlin’s previous band Half Film. [The] Caseworker create an enigmatic intimacy and atmosphere, which they wrap around immaculately crafted pop songs like smoke. Perfectly intoxicating.