Hailing from Caernarfon in Wales, the band advertise themselves as a mixed bag of influences, but as you listen it seems like each member pursued a different ideology.
This flaw seems to replicate to outlandish proportions when you learn that the band produced this EP themselves, hence the overly airbrushed values they’ve applied to it.
With the unusual warped accordion backing, it leads the listener into the EP but instead of instilling a virtue that compliments, it seems empty and hollow, even though the pastiche of Brian Eno’s career emerge, the instruments still seem flatter than Kate Moss.
As it progresses there’s a greater emphasis on feeling but it ends up lapsing back into processed step by step chart music, almost flogging that one trick pony to death at times, but still making it as though it would be drowned out by the very crowd for which they would be playing.
The idea of the EP is prog-rock influenced, especially in final track Zeppy, which makes them come across like a computerised Rick Wakeman, but doesn’t have the heart or the energy, nor the creativeness to carry it forward.
Unnaturally pushing vocals onto an instrumental piece seems like an intrinsic way to make your music memorable and all they’ve managed to do is produce a bland, uninspiring sound that would make most people feel they’ve wasted their chance.
Though the vocals appear melancholy enough to break into an adolescent’s mood-driven CD collection, the pretentious musical direction in which they seem to swing will make them instantly rejected by the same said teen crowd.