This four track EP is a moody package of uncertain love, self-doubt and unspecified anxiety. It’s more-than-worthy English indiepop with swirls of educated wordiness. It's melancholy and it's pretty too. Within a conventional guitar band format the instrumentation is carefully interesting, as if directed by a slowed down Johnny Marr.
"Carry The Light" has a strong echo of RADIOHEAD's The National Anthem in its dominant bass riff. In retrospect that might seem like a careless move, a possible distraction at such an early stage from four otherwise very acceptable journeys into mournfully reassuring territory.
Slow tempos and Nathan Loughran's sob of a voice are laid across simple tunes with (especially in "Don’t Take My Love Away") classic chord progressions. The results are immediately accessible and emotionally engaging. "Secrets" has some of the vocal quality of THE LANDSPEED LOUNGERS' lost classic "Black Out Boy", which, for those of you who know it, is a strong claim for attention. By fourth track "In A Cage, Under The Ground" the melancholy has reached a gentle saturation that should help to guide the fretful listener back into some kind of calm acceptance. Quiescent rather than cathartic. Expertly done.
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