It’s easy to see why Arctic Monkeys comparisons are slung around in the direction of Littlemores: they do, after all, present pithy social observations, kitchen sink dramas and gritty everyday reality inside catchy guitar driven indie rock tunes. And they’re Northern and unashamedly so. But this doesn’t make them second-rate copyists: Conor Hirons is an accomplished lyricist in his own right, while the band have a clear knack for penning cracking tunes. ‘Blue Eyes Black’ tackles domestic violence head on, but without being either moralistic and preachy, or sensationalist, and wraps it all up in a neatly crafted pop parcel. It’s a high-impact start to a cracking EP.
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The performances across all four are energetic and the music and lyrics eloquent: take, for example the lines ‘it’s vital your shirt is pressed / and your haircut look organically distressed / you’re fashionably depressed / this place is a freakshow / it’s not what you know but who you blow’ emo / hipster swiping ‘This Town’ - and there’s something amusing that they should have a monster anthem by the title of ‘Deborah’. Great stuff.
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