Indonesian band Sunny Summer Day have obviously grown up listening to Sarah Records judging by their new EP Me, Myself And The Empty Soul. In fact it sounds so much like The Field Mice, The Sea Urchins and Another Sunny Day I had to check the calendar to make sure it wasn't 1988!

There isn't much diversity in sound here nor has anything progressed since least years Cloudberry release with the same pattern being repeated throughout.

Luckily it's a good one with jangling guitars, forlorn vocals and melodies that shimmer and glisten. These boys have a good ear for a good tune and songs like So Much Fun, which reminds me of Tallulah Gosh for some reason, and Happy In The Summer are very good indeed. Maybe I am being a bit harsh because people who like Sarah Records are going to love this EP but on their next release I hope to hear the band moving away from such safe, obvious influences and give us the songs they know they are fully capable of delivering.

Sunny Summer Day - So Much Fun

The EP is out now as a digital only release on Letterbox Records.