Exlovers : 'You Forget So Easily'
Released: Out Now!!!
Label: Chess Club Records
Chess Club Records has it's finger so much on the button that there isn't much room for anyone else to get a look at it. The label's next EP release comes courtesy of Exlovers' You Forget So Easily, whose melancholic pop touches on Belle And Sebastien, Camera Obscura and even Elliot Smith.
The nineties aren't reinvigorated, but Exlovers do contain traces, James' simple jangly indie is peeks out on the title track and 'Incomplete'. The two voices on 'Incomplete' come together like a gloomy Belle And Sebastien while the gravelly guitars and drums create the only real urgency of the EP.
The breathy vocal on New Years Day harks back to Elliot Smith, the lulling softness somehow manages to feel optimistic while at the same time sound sombre - “I'm doing fine/And I don't want to compromise/It's all a waste of time.” 'Just A Silhouette' is the ying to 'New Years Day's' yang, as upbeat as Camera Obscura at their fleeting best. The contrasting low feel to the vocals remains, only now masked by that poppy, Cajun Dance Party-like backdrop. Ground breaking it ain't, but it's charming enough.
The near-lone acoustic of 'The Moon Has Spoken' offers little as the vocals turn towards dreary, threatening to end 'You Forget So Easily' on something of a sour note. There's enough before 'The Moon Has Spoken' though to hold the EP together over the ending blip. Put this alongside early single 'Photobooth' and Exlovers definitely have a good platform to start off.
Words: Jack Phillips
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