Pink Flamingo is a shimmering rebirth for Kids In Glass Houses

After disbanding in 2014, having gifted us four albums of turn-of-the-10s alt-rock, the five-piece outfit have emerged reinvigorated. Pink Flamingo comes soaked in a shimmering aesthetic of the purest pales and dreams of longing sunsets. Though some things still feel pleasantly familiar with Kids In Glass Houses still unabashedly wearing the heart of vocalist Aled Phillips on their sleeves.

While 2008's Smart Casual introduced a band ready to have it all, rather than rehashing their previous footsteps, this time they’re embracing the vibrancy that always been simmering away, in both their more restrained moments and their aesthetics, but now it's untethered in all of its glossy glory.

With Phillips vocals soaring throughout, Pink Flamingo embraces getting older and all the pitfalls and feelings that come along for the ride. Never ones to shy away from embracing a challenge, 2011s In Gold Blood was a step towards a maturer record, and the nearest that matches Pink Flamingo's tone. Though when compared to this fifth outing, which wears the passage of time with a comfort and confidence, the growth was key.

Pink Flamingo has a solid heart that should appeal to a different world. Certainly a darker one – and in need of levity – than the one they bid farewell too a decade ago. There's an irony in a band whose return for many will invoke a nostalgia toting a sound which in itself is born from a rose-tinted haze of the past, but when the songs have such catchy and earnest approaches, it's hard not to get lost in the good ol' days knowing there's more ahead.