• PLEASURES (Pop from Seattle, USA) Pleasures are fond of mixing ’80s sounds with noughties irony. Smooth saxophones and featherweight guitar jangles bring to mind Christopher Cross’ yacht rock and Avalon-era Roxy Music. But vocalist Aron Pollard’s eccentric falsetto and odd phrasing take Pleasures out of that decade: They’re off-key, out of sync—and so on […]