AMG Review of Shimmering Lights

Andrew Leahey
All Music Guide

Despite being recorded over a four-year period, Shimmering Lights doesn’t have the dragged-out feel of a belabored album. Like a poppier version of Tokyo Police Club, Meligrove Band specialize in the sort of zippy, quirky indie rock that rarely slows down, and the band’s fourth album manages to squeeze ten songs into the space of a half hour. The songs themselves are filled with the familiar trimmings of 21st century indie rock -- half-sung/half-shouted vocals, frenetic single-line guitar riffs, keyboards, and a balance between melody and good-natured noise -- and Shimmering Lights winds up being a tuneful example of by-the-book indie songwriting.