The playing on display here is immediately impressive, especially Andy Lloyd Russell’s so-powerful-you-might-flinch drumming.
Unison male/female singing throughout Long Distance echoes the difficulties of sustaining a relationship in different time zones, with the song paring back to a single guitar line that perfectly encapsulates the misery of it all.
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I Live In A Small Town’s choruses sound like relocating to the Big Smoke: jubilantly hooning down the highway in your Toyota Corolla that’s jammed with belongings, a mattress strapped to the roof. Oh’s percolating synths and distorted, elongated guitar nod towards Loveless-era My Bloody Valentine – it’s mesmeric stuff. Hit The Road’s guitar parts ride the same slipstream.
Guitarist/vocalist Brodie J Brümmer wrote the ‘80s synth-dominating lead single Goodbye To Music while managing a guilt spiral over having neglected his ear health – particularly inexcusable as a touring musician, right? – over the years. And this one channels The Last High by The Dandy Warhols. Never Forget closes proceedings with aplomb; what sounds like a buzzing beehive poked by occasional keys plonks.
Sunshiny melodies slice through You Never Know’s incessant vibratory guitar squall with some regularity and vocals are often treated as just another instrument; definitely listen through headphones if you’re a lyrics fancier.
You Never Know was released on March 17 via Poison City. Check it out by heading here.
