My Sad Captains - Best of Times

2014 album from the British Indie quartet. Like the brilliant 1961 poem by the late Thom Gunn, from which the band take their name, a sparingly deployed assemblage of words and emotions shows that less can be so much more. The nine songs that comprise BEST OF TIMES have an almost underplayed guitar pop sensibility reminiscent of many classic indie bands of the '80s. But neither are they any kind of throwback, with suitably restrained and delicate shades of keyboards and a beautiful clarity of sound that's distinctly 21st century.