Chapel Club - Palace
I used the word 'epic' again yesterday. I should really stop that, it's a bit overused. Plus it's going to difficult not to bring it into play for Chapel Club, since 'epic indie rock' is kind of the genre they operate in. Think more guitar-heavy early Doves stuff like "Catch the Sun" and you're nearly there. Lewis Bowman's voice is a little more tuneful than Jimi Goodwin's, but almost as deep and just as naturally set on transmitting overpowering emotion.
Their lyrics are perfectly pitched evocative vagueness (the only way they can get away with a song called "All the Eastern Girls", and even then it's touch and go), the interpolation of "Dream a Little Dream" on "Surfacing" is fantastic twisted romanticism, absolutely everything sounds appropriately HUGE. There's not enough range, and this isn't a genre which I can love in unalloyed form, for them to get any higher up than 22 (or to give me much more to say), but they are great at what they do.
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