These guys certainly know how to avoid accusations of hyping themselves. ‘If you're ever really really bored. Check out our debut EP’ they write. Not simply bored, or even really bored, but really really bored. So naturally, I’m prepared to be underwhelmed, I’m braced to rip into the tedious tossbags. I’m not prepared for some big, stop/start grunge-style riffery. I’m not prepared for some killer tunes and a bucketload of angst.
‘Emerald’ comes on like Milk (the 90s band who released ‘Rash’ and ‘Tantrum’ via Eve Records, not the current bunch of funk / soul mofos) or a heavier Bivouac. Plaintive verses contrast with driving choruses, and on the slower ‘Sitka’ they pour emotive torrents in a way that’s reminiscent of Oceansize with a slew of elliptical lyrics.
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Their name proves to be remarkably apt. Where they differ from so many of their peers is the way they reveal – and allude to – greater depths, expansive prog elements incorporated within densely-packed songs that land below the four-minute mark. Good shit.
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