Summer Camp: Welcome to Condale – review

Had they formed in the 80s, London boy‑girl duo Summer Camp would have been a fixture on brat pack film soundtracks. Their dreamy debut is shot through with regard for the years when synth-pop ruled the charts and Molly Ringwald was a national sweetheart. Typical is the hazy "Summer Camp", which samples Kelly LeBrock in John Hughes's Weird Science , while the euphoric "1988" is Toni Basil by way of indie-pop. But Welcome to Condale doesn't fetishise the past, its love-gone-wrong lyrics and snatches of chillwave lending Summer Camp a sound that is theirs alone.