The recording project of Melbourne’s Sally Hull, Dilary Huff works in emotive lo-fi songs pitched somewhere between the fuzzy intimacy of bedroom pop and the buoyant energy of pop punk and emo. The marriage of styles is a clever one as the added bite of the latter allows the sincerity of the former to flourish without ever tipping into its saccharine excesses.
Set for release on Devil Town Tapes, both digitally and with a limited-run cassette, Overused Sayings is the debut Dilary Huff EP, and we’re thrilled by share the the title track to give you a real taste of what to expect from the release.
A song “about the rush of falling in love with someone and wanting to spend all your time with them,” ‘Overused Sayings’ maintains a kind of breathless rhythm, as though finding itself caught in a sudden undertow and laying back to let the current lead the way. Hull’s vocals skip over the surface of this for much of the track, surfing the energy with a carefree spirit, but eventually things intensify and drag her in.
The closing section is therefore not the pay-off of the rising momentum but its intensification. That hyper sense of movement that marks the instrumentation has a hold of Hull too, her vocals frantic and repetitive, overwhelmed by the immediacy of things.
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Overused Sayings is out via Devil Town Tapes on the 15th November and you can pre-order it from Bandcamp.
