Andy's Aural Advent: 15th Dec. DRINKS - "Hermits On Holiday"

In a relatively short time (2009's Gruff Rhys-produced Me Oh My served as an introduction), Cate Le Bon has become one of my favourite artists: a distinctive, endearingly offbeat singer, guitarist and collaborator. In 2013, Le Bon moved to Los Angeles where she met and began playing with LA resident and fellow psych-o Tim Presley aka White Fence. 

Performing under the name DRINKS, the pair's collaborative album of this year, Hermits On Holiday, has the feel of an off-the-cuff one-off: a charmingly odd collection of 60s sunshine psych, clattering jams, jamming clatters, and eat-your-(Beef)heart-out in-jokes. The brilliant title track sounds like a lost no-hit wonder, of the sort you might have heard on the Peel Show between The Slits and Young Marble Giants.