This ten minute four track EP captures the band as a duo, with Greg Murphy and Scott Baker sharing all instruments and vocals. As with their other material there is a real refusal to conform to any perceived norm and instead are creating whatever they wish, mixing and melding loads of different styles. It’s a shame that they had to use a drum machine, but according to Bandcamp they are later going to release versions of these songs with Kyle Boggs playing on them so I’ll forgive them for now.
There is quite a lot of acoustic guitar within these four songs, and plenty of vocal harmonies, with a definite edge to everything that they do. There is real angst here, which comes over very strongly in “A Battling Brook” where the line is repeated “They’ll never take us alive”. As with the other release by these guys there will be plenty of progheads who won’t feel that this should be called prog as it is way more indie than many would like, but it’s all good to me!! As with most of their material, it is available for free download from Bandcamp so why not give them a try?
