Ban - mundo de aventuras, 1990

"Just more music for “in between seasons”. What else can you say to describe the latter-day work of, sadly, now defunct, Portuguese sophisticated pop group, Ban? As I put on their Mundo de Aventuras it’s not hard to have your mind race back to more naive times when certain love songs spoke to youthful measures one can never truly quantify. It’s times like these we need songs just like these. We’ve heard some of these ideas in the music of Paddy McAloon’s Prefab Sprout, the Go-Betweens, and others, but to hear those twists of pop sweetness coming from such a group as you’ll meet here, now remains strikingly refreshing."