Errors, Have Some Faith in Magic. (Rock Action) **** (From York Press)

Errors, Have Some Faith in Magic. (Rock Action) ****

12:11pm Friday 27th January 2012 in CD reviews By Matt Clark

GLASGOW band Errors have been away for a while and during that time they have found their voices. This is their first album to feature vocals prominently, more as another instrument it’s fair to say, and interestingly the music has shifted to sugar-tipped, sprawling pop littered with enough hooks for a champion fisherman.

It’s a far cry from their previous efforts; more cosmo-gazing they call it. Think Depeche Mode teamed up with the Pipettes backing band and you’re halfway there. The trademark instrumental interplay is still there, this is Metronomy with balls. Bass is grungy, guitar Hacket-esque, with synths reminiscent of Ladytron and Tangerine Dream.

But the haunting, ethereal vocals, especially on Magna Encarta and Pleasure Palaces, and those delicious pop tinges now give Errors a more majestic air as each track swirls layer upon layer.

Often icy and dark, always intriguing and uplifting, this is music to savour; the perfect accompaniment to cosmo-gazing on summer solstice.

• Errors play Leeds Cockpit2 on February 17.