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DMAs

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5:14 PM

Just as the afternoon sun was beginning to wane, and people’s energy began to fade with it before the evening’s second wind arrived, what better time to be greeted with the dulcet tones of Aussie indie stalwarts DMA’S? Opening their Main Stage West set with ‘The Glow’ brought all the glimmering summer warmth that you could ask for shining down on the Yorkshire countryside, dousing the crowd in their smoothly beguiling melodies, transforming them into a sea of bobbing heads and contented smiles.

Each track was laced with vocalist Tommy O’Dell’s characteristically soaring, buttery vocals – yet, behind the apparent calming simplicity of the tracks, there was a joyous hidden complexity bubbling away at their heart.

Nowhere was this better signified than on the band’s new single, ‘I Don’t Need to Hide’. Here, a soft orchestral intro blossoms over a bed of rippling drum samples, blooming as the song progresses into a full-hearted pop-rock chorus. Then, almost without warning, those layers all fall away again, stripping the track back to its soft opening refrain and rebuilding all over again. Weaving all these elements together in such an absorbing is testament to DMA’S supreme musicianship – whoever said indie could only be a couple of chords and some shout-along choruses, eh?