Greetings From Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/greetings-from/ New and independent music Fri, 08 Apr 2016 18:45:14 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/varioussmallflames.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-finalwhite-e1490809629909-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Greetings From Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/greetings-from/ 32 32 88787050 Holiday Home – Greetings From https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2016/04/08/holiday-home/ Fri, 08 Apr 2016 18:43:17 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=8788 Holiday Home are perhaps the most aptly named band I’ve ever come across. The Manchester band’s entire aesthetic is based around that golden carefree vacation atmosphere. It not only shapes their moniker but the title of their EP (Greetings From), the postcard-inspired cover art and their brand of tropically-tinged sunny indie pop. As if to reinforce this idea, the EP’s opening track even begins with brief sample the world’s most famous summer holiday song, before side-stepping into lo-fi rock as cool and refreshing […]

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]]> Holiday Home are perhaps the most aptly named band I’ve ever come across. The Manchester band’s entire aesthetic is based around that golden carefree vacation atmosphere. It not only shapes their moniker but the title of their EP (Greetings From), the postcard-inspired cover art and their brand of tropically-tinged sunny indie pop. As if to reinforce this idea, the EP’s opening track even begins with brief sample the world’s most famous summer holiday song, before side-stepping into lo-fi rock as cool and refreshing as a summer breeze. Follow-up ‘So Fresh, So Easy’ is like one of the breezier Brit-pop tracks, a love song on which declares:

“it’s you
it’s only you
i need you now i know for sure
a dimmer switch, a shutting door
i can never dream of more
it’s you”

Then comes a strange interlude, ‘Wish You Were Here’, with dog bark percussion, before the pensive acoustic pop of ‘Clueless’. Final track ‘A Place in the Sun (Imagine, Don’t Even)’ segues back into peppy indie pop territory, complete with a menagerie of samples, snippets from Clueless and the joyful cheers and “yays!” of a group of delighted children.

You can get Greetings From on cassette or name-your-price download via the Z Tapes Bandcamp page.

 

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