How To Be Happy is the new six song EP from Hull based youngsters Avis who are Seven Speck, Ellis Ponton, Zack Cook, James Rymer and Freddie Abbott the ep was produced by Adam Pattrick. They are part of the Warren Records stable that is part of the Warren House youth project in Hull.
The Ep opens with the uncut version of How To Be Happy a slow brooding indie song for some self-realisation at the work you need to put in to make sure you're cool and therefore happy, no matter how heavy the morning after hangover makes you feel, can alcoholic oblivion really make you feel happy.
City Suicide is something they wish they didn't know about, the darkness driving on to despair, who will read those last words of a man driven over the edge, while sounding a bit like the American underground indie band Get Smart! Or even Salem 66 but shot through with the air of The Audience or Sleeper this is a great song about a dreadful subject that is far too prevalent.
What Makes It Pretty On Her yet ugly on me so to speak, this is the teenage quandary of why one girl wearing an outfit is deemed pretty and queen of the scene, while another girl in the same outfit is a dweeb or whatever modern term you prefer, just don't get involved with that Succubus, this is sophisticated sad girl pop in a similar vein to Tizane.
Take The Pill alter your perspective, change into that person that the doctor thinks you ought to be, or don't take the pill and be your own neurotic self like a modern update of 28th Day's classic 25 Pills with a different dilemma.
The version I was sent has two bonus tunes the radio clean versions of How To Be Happy and City Suicide helping to get the songs right into my head the classic Indie bands sound they have, exploring life of a sulky teenager in the 2020's, appears much the same as it was in the 1980's, but with more technology adding to the angst, how to have a good time and be happy on a Friday night, things go awry and he's threatening everything again, just another suicide statistic, just another indie tune about suicide, a constant teenage topic, the solution to which never seems to come.
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