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The Guardian - UK
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Dave Simpson, Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura Snapes

Add to playlist: Storefront Church’s cinematic baroque pop and the week’s best new tracks

Hymnal … Lukas Frank AKA Storefront Church.
Hymnal … Lukas Frank AKA Storefront Church. Photograph: Marielle Stobie

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After several years of perseverance, things are happening for Storefront Church. The audience at this month’s sellout gig at St Pancras Old Church in London included Perfume Genius and members of the Last Dinner Party and the Horrors and their self-released second album, Ink & Oil, is picking up rave reviews. One used the term “emotional flood” to describe the album’s epic, baroque pop, big pianos and drums, sweeping choruses and Travis Warner’s lush, cinematic orchestrations.

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