The High Llamas

For the past five years, barmy Irish-born musicologist Sean O'Hagan and his band, the High
Llamas, have been pilfering from the catalogs of Steely Dan, Burt Bacharach and – most
obviously – the Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys. But after 1997's Hawaii, a near-perfect
facsimile of Smile, O'Hagan decided to approach his Brian Wilsonisms from a new angle.
With the help of Stereolab keyboardist Andy Ramsey, O'Hagan layered that band'... More >