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| 1. Satellite |
| 2. Staring At The Sun |
| 3. Blind |
| 4. Young Liars |
| 5. Bonus Track |
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I first heard the title track on a radio show on BBC 6Music, as soon as the song started with the loping beat and beautiful vocal harmonies I knew I was hearing something distinctly original and utterly soulful! After hearing 'Young Liars' I immediately bought the EP of the same name - and boy was I blown away all over again! The EP was on constant repeat at home, at work, in the car and on my portable.
I have their other albums, but they don't come anywhere near 'Young Liars' for consistent brilliance.
Apologies for the over-the-top gushing - it really is an amazing record. A true classic.
The four originals on this album are all excellent and get better with each listen. Their drugged-out doo-wop cover of the Pixies' "Mr. Grieves" is entertaining on occasion, but maybe runs a little too long. Fortunately, they had the good sense to place it last on the EP. Young Liars promises great things for the forthcoming album from this emerging band.
Track by track:
"Satellite" - The EP opens with this uptempo number, with bass and drums throbbing like a mechanical heartbeat and the guitar grinding ominously in the distance. The vocals are soulful, yet sad and detached, floating over the verse to a rhythmic, harmonized chorus that matches the drive of the instruments. Near the end, the music moves into dreamier variations on the theme created. Great song.
"Staring at the Sun" - A standout track. It opens with a pair of dreamy, falsetto vocals, harmonized beautifully. Then the bass arrives. The fuzzy tremolo bass underlies the rest of the song, just barely off time with the simple drum machine, and provides a throbbing, organic backdrop for the melody. The vocal melodies cover a vast range, with their doo-wap harmonies and soulful wails, painting a vision at once apocalyptic and transcendent as the guitar adds texture to the background.
"Blind" - This track is longer and slower, having moved fully into the hallucinatory dream mood of the previous songs. The vocals are increasingly wistful, with the beautiful melodies placed over yet another variation of the throbbing bass, constant drumbeat, and wash of guitar-generated noise. The track approaches the ambient, pulled back to reality by the desperation and resignation in the vocals. As the track ends, it melts into a soft wash of noise.
"Young Liars" - A 6/8 drumbeat and bassline, with just a hit of keyboard, form the backing for the verses, creating plenty of sonic space for the vocals to fill. Again, the melodies are more akin to doo-wop or soul than rock, and harmonies appear around the edges. This might be the weakest of the four tracks, but it is still fabulous by normal definitions.
"Mr. Grieves" - This hidden track is an acapella cover of a song by The Pixies. Fabulous harmonized vocals, and a completely creepy, sinister mood that is perfectly in keeping with the original, despite the new arrangement. Like an evil jazz chorus or barbershop quartet, with the harmonized lead melody backed by moaned harmonies and soft finger snaps. Brilliant.
All in all, this is an amazing EP. Even though there is a certain formula in the creation of the first four tracks, that formula is in a style unlike anything common to today's music. TV on the Radio have fused doo-wap, soul, techno, and Radiohead-esqe rock into a coherant whole that is as forward-looking as it is beautiful.
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