EPs seem to be getting longer these days. Since no-one gives a toss about qualifying for the charts these days, and the downloading of any individual track means it has a chance of charting, whether it's an album track or single, means that such distinctions have become pretty much obsolete. It's not necessarily a bad thing, either: all that editing and trimming or otherwise being declare ineligible for the singles charts on account of total running times served only the ends of radio playlist arrangers, and were all too prescriptive in terms of defining what constitutes a 'single.'
Nevertheless, I'd still maintain that six tracks - even if the running time is only just a little over a quarter of an hour - is a mini-album, rather than an EP. Trev Gibbs' EP has six tracks. Four would have sufficed, as it would have made it two tracks less boring.
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'Who's Alvy Singer,' slap in the middle is the clear standout and would have perhaps served better as a single on its own. It sees Trev stretch his voice from a fairly nondescript croon into a plaintive anguish. 'It's someone else's party, it's true / I'm not staying,' he sings, and manages to impart the lyric with a genuine sense of awkwardness and discomfort.
Otherwise, it's a fairly mundane strum from beginning to end. Inoffensive enough, but entirely forgettable.
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