More warm West Coast style harmonies from the South Coast of England with the dulcet tones of Helen Weeks’ being nicely pitched against the gruffer voice of fellow song writer and bassist Dave Davies.
The Eastbourne-based band’s second album, following their excellent 2018 debut, ‘Apricity’, is full of departures, the end of affairs proving a richer source of inspiration than the heady excitement of beginnings. There are more songs about the ache of loss than the allure of love.
The question “What came first, the leaving or the losing?” Prague is implicitly posed in various forms in the majority of the tracks. This causes in an air of weariness to dominate although this falls well short of outright despair. If these songs were a season, they’d be late Autumn. There is plenty of what are referred to in Only One as ”switchblade emotions.”
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The understated ”countrified sonic landscapes are easy on the ear and address familiar themes without resorting to tired platitudes. The well-crafted songs have an authenticity that deserve to find a wider audience.
The Equatorial Group at Bandcamp
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