This album is most definitely first class.  Full text...

Where Polytechnic's debut is strongest is in the way they obscure these sounds and make them golden on their own terms.  Full text...

Like the Magic Numbers before them, their über-jolly tunes are refreshingly cynicism-free; they sound unabashedly happy on songs such as Won't You Come Around and Pep, and their perkiness even allows them to get away with lines like...   Full text...

This is a good effort but one to file alongside undervalued obscurities such as the Tyde and Cranebuilders.  Full text...

Polytechnic undoubtedly employ a bounty of derivation in their music; but it's this same old-school charm that makes Down Til Dawn so disarmingly likeable.  Full text...