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ANNIE STEVENSON - Someone Else CD-EP
The title track opens
this EP from a new young Glasgow band and it's a mid-paced slice of
indie intensity with a huge sound, a sea of harmony vocals, sizzling
backdrop of electric guitar riffing, rhythms that lurch, drive and
sound positively dramatic, as the lead vocal wanders from solo emotion
into multi-layered chorus with a natural ease as the band provides a
track that sounds fantastic and more like a band many years their
senior in terms of quality and approach. “Bue Tae And Hate Dred” is
more of a jaunty number, less intense, with sneering vocal, jangly
guitar, tambourine rhythm, bouncing bass and chugging drums – then it
goes supernova – as the scything guitar figure is unleashed – before
veering back to the main verse – and this is its pattern – and it's
superb as another novel and individual take on modern indie songwriting
and arranging lights up your life. “Wave In Your Lotus” is slightly
slower with a more optimistic vocal and jangly guitars that are briefly
interrupted by a wave of guitar riffs for something that's almost a
hook, but the whole song with all its layers and lightness above the
sizzling undercurrents, really has a hypnotic effect with a sense of
light and shade to its arrangement that really hits the spot. Finally,
“Original Widescreen Versions Of Ourselves” ends things with a soaring
lone guitar figure above cymbal splashes as a mournful lead vocal plus
a sudden explosion of guitars takes centre stage, veering rapidly from
one part to the other before the harmony vocals emerge and the song
effortlessly drives forward, slow and mid-paced but its sense of light
and shade, dramatic and sedate, making it something to treasure.
Overall, this is a band doing something decidedly original to indie
music and if this is just their beginning, a career to be watched with
intent.