‘Doubles Underneath’ is a jaunty indie pop tune with a bittersweet edge and a nagging sense of nostalgia that reflects the lyrical content. Still, it’s perhaps not as straightforward as all that. As much as it’s a personal paean to the decade that’s back in vogue right now, the song also seems to take a swipe at nostalgia and the way people become locked into an era at a certain point in their lives and seem unable to move forward, with the chorus ‘The clocks have all but stopped back in 1984 / It’s the decade you’re overly proud of / it’s the one that came before that 90s guff’.
|
The other three tracks aren’t bad either, from the lilting, wistful acoustic folk flavour of ‘Near Star Pole Star’ via the jaunty upbeat rock ‘n’ roll of ‘Single Cheap’ to ‘Little Man’. This last track starts out sounding like early Pavement before bursting into an anthemic classic rock stomper that’s really quite contagious, rounding off an EP that’s really rather good.
King Creosote Online
|
