“DRINKS focus on the more surrealist elements of Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley’s respective projects. Here, the results are otherworldly and unfamiliar, but amidst the visionary weirdness, there’s also a faint hint of nostalgia at play. While ‘Hippo Lite’ sounds fresh and exhilarating, it could also be an undiscovered obscurity from a bygone era. DRINKS’ debut LP relied on a mutual appreciation for ”
“Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley sound blissfully removed on their second album as a duo, in a quizzical world of their own creation. This one’s best played late at night.”
“Drinks' second outing offers the real and truly bizarre”
“DRINKS is the project of two decidedly left-of-centre musicians who flirt with the foundations of pop: Welsh songwriter Cate le Bon and partner in crime Tim Presley – one of many former members of The Fall and the brains behind White Fence. On 2015 debut ‘Hermits on Holiday’, they successfully found a balance between pleasing art-rock experimentation and all-out self-indulgence. Follow-up ‘Hippo L”
“Separately, Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley make some of the strangest and most likable psychedelic pop music going. The former’s fizzy, fidgety songs are rhythmically restless and hyper-melodic, and they seem to be getting weirder as she moves through her career. And Presley is one of the 21st century’s most mutable musical chameleons. He came up in a punk band (The Nerve Agents) and piloted an incre”
“Where some might find their centre in such a locale, the self-imposed echo chamber seems to have exacerbated their worst individual qualities.”
