Tearing through six tracks oozing undying urgency and an avid major key infatuation, the adolescent trio comprised of Nyssa, Matthew and Harry purvey a musical passion far beyond their years, as Everything That Is Not Mine flits between Shangri-Las harmonies and vehement CBGB punk screech, whilst Visions Of You is Dexy's Midnight Runners chasing Motown bass lines around blocks of battered drum kit. Opener Go Between straddles retrospective sheen pop and a boisterous modernity, all in 4/4 time, Beck & Call with its originality-imbued guitar stabs and sassy vocals recalls She & Him were Zooey Deschanel's primary objective to decapitate Kate Nash in as economical a timescale as possible, and Love That Beats My Heart takes up the brattish pop punk paintbrushes of Be Your Own Pet in order to depict an abrasively beguiling portrait of love, the sort that Blood Red Shoes oft stamp all over. Mercy Line, flailing fervently in rickety guitar shackles is doo-wop overcooked and sounds all too similar to the tumbledown trash of The Rumble Strips, yet there's more than enough meat on the bones of an EP/LP hybrid to aliment many a teenage rebellion bashed out behind bedroom doors slammed shut.
Modern Superstitions - Visions of You by Last Gang Entertainment
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