The publicity for this modest six track offering describes the East London-based trio as "big-skied and lo-fi.
It was recorded in just three days at Soup Studios in Brick Lane. The basic, and frankly very flat, production is slightly enhanced by the contribution of guest musician Christine Lehmann, whose violin playing give the songs a little added depth.
The vocals are shared by Mark James Pearson and Amity Joy Dunn. The songs have a quality that owes more to electric folk than hard rock.
The pick of the tunes are the crisp and direct title track and the more sprawling Rosy, Technology ("technology is leaving us behind, I even curse the day I learned to tell the time").
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Pearson wrote all the songs except for the jokey, and out of place, closing track (Married in the Morning which is by Bennett.
Like the Mother Hackney song that closed their previous album from 2007 - Lea Valley Delta Blues, this suggests that there's a side of the band that wants to be Half Man, Half Biscuit.
They are not that but, equally, their earnest Indie Folk lacks any defining character or anything to make this album truly memorable.
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