The drums draw you in immediately. “Backwards,” the latest single from Leeds band Eades’ new album Final Sirens Call, begins with a skittering backbeat that keeps the song feeling brisk and lively all throughout its four minutes. It becomes the foundation for a very British sort of pop-rock song that feels like a modern spin on that post-Britpop, post-OK Computer class of bands circa Y2K — your Doves, Travis, Coldplay lot — but maybe there’s some actual Britpop in there too? Either way, though I wouldn’t describe it as retro, there’s a classic quality to it, especially when that jaunty piano enters into the dreamy finale. “Standing on ice/ Bending over backwards/ I’m somebody else/ Every night/ Waiting on my last words,” Tom O’Reilly sings on the chorus.
