You get suspicious when the bio that comes with the review copy can’t commit to anything resembling a fact about the band it purports to promote. Quakers & Mormons might be Italian in origin or indeed they might not as there sound definitely owes more to New York than to Rome.
As if to further confuse, Quakers & Mormons even include a looped urban sample fest called “New York Town” that mixes the quirky with a Talking Heads feel. European electro pop is, of course, renowned for wholesale borrowing of themes and that could easily be said of many of the songs here but the boy/girl vocals bounce these songs off what would be limitations and turn them into something that is actually quite charming. “Plastic Bags”, however, has a distinct edge to it and layers on some cutting ecological commentary via some white boy rap so there is lyrical depth for those who need such things.
Plastic they may be, but Quakers and Mormons escape all accusations of recycling with this album.