The Melting Ice Caps - Selfish Bachelor

Another release from the God Is In The TV Single clubs, and the quality shows no sign of abating as former Luxembourg front man David Shah puts forward a warming combination of personable vocals and softly rising guitars that are steadily pushed and prodded forward by a scattering of electronic beeps and squiggles.

Much like GIITV’s earlier releases from My First Radio and Time.Space.Repeat, The Melting Ice Caps deal in opening up a vast atmospheric expanse; where David Shah differs however is in placing something comfortable and almost homely within the resulting space, never throwing caution to the wind and getting lost in the drifting current of the synths and beeps. The result is an intimate work of guise and poise that even throws in a touch of humour as Shah muses that he “puts jokes in the chorus to make it less serious”.

B-side ‘How To Appear Well Adjusted’ aims itself at more Beirut-styled territories and for the most succeeds if occasionally finding itself plodding on with a bit too much taken from the train spotter’s guide to chamber pop. Nevertheless though in The Melting Ice Caps, David Shah shows that in his new guise he continues to be a fine purveyor in the fine art of creating melodic pop and it’s with ever present quality that rings through both tracks.

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