The The - Soul Mining Format:Vinyl LP their So Young released single

their So Young released single ‘Mirrors’ – a knowing nod of respect to some well-known gloomy Northerners - may have made old school indie heads shimmy at shows in Salford’s The White Hotel but also signalled the duo’s knack for offering listeners a Bandersnatch approach to hitchhiking their own personal Nightbus in whatever direction they choose to take

What makes Helado Tropical particularly resonant is the sense of trust that underpins it

McHone whistles it back

wrestled from the brink and shaped into their truest form yet

It is a classic forty-minute set of inquisitive pop songs

The The - Soul Mining Format:Vinyl LP their So Young released singleOriginally released on 21st October 1983, the recording of Soul Mining began in the spring of 1982, when the then 20 year old Matt Johnson, financed at this point by London Records, de camped to New York to record "Uncertain Smile" with producer Mike Thorne. A subsequent session, again in New York with Thorne, and featuring David Johansen of the New York Dolls, resulted in "Perfect", yet both sessions, and the deal with London Records, were