Jaunty, lightweight indie-pop with a Brit-Pop sneer from singer-songwriter Keith Brown opens with the pleasingly scuzzy title track, nestled somewhere between Menswear and The Bluetones, it’s totally fluffy candyfloss but nonetheless enjoyable for it. The tempo shift on the title track is pure The Great Escape-era Blur, though Brown’s voice is more Coxon than Albarn. But it’s a like a warm shot of nostalgia rather than a totally cut-n-paste act of homage.
The Light is a short, spiky pop song with one foot in the Arctic Monkeys and the other in sneery Ben Kweller territory, a furrow ploughed more thoroughly by the following track On The Roadside, which, despite a tinny minimal production lurches into decent sub-Weezer choruses.
Closing track Meanderings has operatically snarled vocals akin to Steve Harley married to a quirky Aidan Smith-like collection of keyboard twinkles, it’s an odd concoction though one of the most enjoyably crafted songs on this little ep. Brown suffers when his sounds are more firmly routed in indie-pop retro tropes, but proves, even across these four small but well formed tracks, that he has the talent to deliver entertaining little pop nuggets.
[Rating:3]
