Goldheart Assembly - Wolves and Thieves (2010)

Goldheart Assembly, a London-based six-piece have only been together just over a year but their immaculate folk-pop choruses mean that they've already achieved much in that short time. Their debut single on London indie label Heron Recordings sold out in a day and got them truckloads of airplay, an NME feature and led to triumphant shows at Glastonbury, V, Latitude and the Carling Weekend. Most excitingly it piqued the interest of Fierce Panda Records for whom Goldheart Assembly have spent the past summer recording their debut album among the old engines in their drummer's dad's steam train museum in Norfolk. Already they've had page features in music weeklies and got prominent radio DJs frothing at the mouth:

“Everything about these boys is polished, shiny and class as a walnut dresser. The clear crisp harmonies skewer shrivelled hearts, the breathless romp of ‘King Of Rome’ proves Mumford & Sons aren’t the only young folk-rockers with grand plans round these parts and ‘So Long St. Christopher comes across like a lovelorn Teenage Fanclub.”-NME

"They take a joyous acoustic beardy bunch of ideas and mess around with them like a cat playing with a ball of string. Already you could easily put them out on tour supporting Fleet Foxes or The Low Anthem (now there's an idea). And they smile at each other on stage - which is so out of character for new bands these days (unless it's a nervous tick) that it's actually quite infectious."-Steve Lamacq, BBC 6Music

"This London six-piece are purveyors of lovely melodies, ramshackle beardiness and the sound of banging doors. When they're not being rocky, they're the British Fleet Foxes. They've got two modes, have the Assembly. They do chugging and rocky, or solemn and slow. They're best when they turn down the volume and let their voices soar – "So Long St. Christopher" and "The Last Decade" have the haunting, hymnal quality of, what's that band again? Oh yes, Fleet Foxes."-Paul Lester, guardian.co.uk