The Aislers Set occupy an enviable place in the pop pantheon. Brimming with drunken romanticism, sharp pop sensibilities, and timeless melodies, The Aislers Set reveled in the history of great pop, spiking their classicist 60s-tinged tunes with pure post-punk energy and originality of bands like the Fire Engines and The June Brides. Every song is a meticulously constructed sound world, where the arrangement and instrumentation sublimely and uncannily bring each tune to completeness. Edgy and baroque, the band's final release "How I Learned To Write Backwards" expertly wound together countless strands of pop history with personality and atmosphere. Using the past as inspiration rather than blueprint, the echoes you might hear of Phil Spector's Wall of ... mehr lesen