Album Reviews

SYNTH/INDIE POP

Bastille: Doom Days (Virgin/EMI)

Who would have thought that such an average, mannered pop group as Bastille would have sold over nine million records worldwide, and amassed global streams of over 6.5 billion? With hints of Coldplay and Mumford & Sons seeping out of virtually every bar, you could be forgiven for thinking Bastille have little to present except hummable scraps from the table. And yet throughout Doom Days, the ...