Mausi - Sol

Despite hailing from Newcastle, Mausi make polished, feel good, sun-drenched pop music. The foursome are fronted by Italian born siblings Daisy and Thomas Finetto who met their accomplices Ben Brown and Benji Huntrods at university. Mausi set up their own label, Redcar Music, releasing their ‘Follow Me Home’ debut single, a giddy, bleepy affair which hinted at a joyful future on the horizon.

‘Sol’ is their follow up release and the single beats and throbs with a pulse straight from the heart of the Euroclub Mediterannean dancefloor, managing to bounce between the beach and the club from verse to chorus. Bolstered by boy-girl harmonies and irrepressibly buoyant charm, Mausi promising to put dreams in our eyes while the refrain urges us to ‘dance, dance, dance.’ The refrain doesn’t entirely work, an order suggesting the listener to nod his/her head in mild approval seems more appropriate for this slice of solar sophisti-pop.

On the evidence of ‘Sol’ Mausi most certainly do make danceable pop music, think Phoenix or Mates of State, but there’s no real edge or singularly defining hook to Sol which would ensure it burns brighter than any other anodyne Europop anthem. Still, this is well-crafted and in a couple of months, Mausi’s ‘Sol’ might be all the music we really need.