Kingston noise/pop duo PS I Love You pull a Jesus and Mary Chain here by releasing a B-sides/singles collection soon after a debut. There’s not a lot of new material here, but it works incredibly well as an album. Leftovers, a collaboration with Diamond Rings, is easily the best single released this year, while Scattered, Facelove and Starfield are all much more than filler. The disc is more diverse than 2010’s Meet Me at the Muster Station but just as manic with mini-tunes A-D and Mystery Shirt holding a lot of rabble in under two minutes. The whole thing ends with a cover of Rush’s Subdivisions – so different from the original, yet exactly how you’d imagine these guys would interpret it.

Published in Volume 66, Number 2 of The Uniter (September 8, 2011)