From the same label that brought you that quite natty Cosines single, fika recordings latest release – well forthcoming in February is the debuting full length from Swedish cool groovers Making Marks. Entitled ‘A Thousand Half Truths’ the quartet though only getting together in 2012 have already shared the boards with the likes of Bonnie Prince Billy, Allo Darlin and Asobi Seksu, just sneaked out as an advance warning as to what to expect comes ‘Barcodes’. This homely cutie swoons delicately to the sultry opine of lap steel sighs, the vocals surrendering to the softly hushed radiance of sun glowed pastoral love notes endow it with the kind of fragile pop symmetry that once upon a time appeared to be the preserve of a youthful go betweens.
