Kitty Empire 

Fool’s Gold: Fool’s Gold

Yes this LA collective are channelling Vampire Weekend. But who cares when they sound this great, writes Kitty Empire
  
  


Indie band wielding African guitar sounds. Sound familiar? Of the clots of copyists that have come in Vampire Weekend's wake, however, Fool's Gold stand proud. This able, percolating, multi-ethnic ten-piece collective from Los Angeles can muster all the requisite goat-toe rattles and shell gourds a hip world fusion band could want. But they add further topspin to the formula by singing in Hebrew, yielding a perpetually rolling lost-tribes vibe that could soundtrack BBC4's Lost Kingdoms of Africa series. Unexpectedly great.

 

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