Courtesy of Drowned in Sound - http://www.drownedinsound.com/event/view/22344 -

In the intensely crimson Buffalo Bar, some bands play. They are uniformly shit until Mittens arrive. Mittens, who play the kind of pop favoured by a naked Jason Lytle slathering cream all over The Mountain Goats. This is bracing, utterly fresh and stripped-down popular music, devoid of any garish over-indulgence. Whizz-bang and that's a song. Music this effortless shouldn't be hampered quite so much by technology, but tonight sees several instrumental kerfuffles and flashing lights dying, leading Mittens' front man to assert that "…err… something happened". That aside, Mittens show us the power of guitar, bass and drums once Brian Wilson has left the studio to go and write a quick opera.