After 2023’s Hookey EP, a strong, passionate indie-dream-pop-shoegaze full debut by the London singer-songwriter, whose breathy voice intertwines with strong, stirring riffs and textured sounds, themed around cycles of nature aiming to explain and celebrate the mercurial nature of human emotional weather. Eaves has the ability to whip up layers of sound and stirring first is Hurricane Girl, which builds from acoustic guitar strums into a full blown storm of diaphanous shoegaze harmonies, thunderous bass line and drums into voluminous dream pop, inspired by watching documentaries about storm chasers, using the metaphor to shine a light on friends who have been compelled to seek out tempestuous relationships and sounds showing inspiration from Pearl Jam to Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette. Just Say No is built around the brutal truths accrued from Eaves and her friends’ skirmishes with abusive men. It’s a stormy emotional world. Everybody Talks has a rising crescendo of intrusive voices. The more shoegazey while even breathier Mountain Sized references Lily Allen’s 2009 single The Fear, “because you’ve got this one woman casually listing all the worst things about herself, the kind of stuff you should be too embarrassed to admit.” It is filled with high hopes and self-deprecation: “I am taller than the highest mountain tops / I have 50 acres long and ten thousand miles wide / I want a house but I lose hope daily/ A simple saying ′cause no one′s gonna pay me/ So, I scrap the vision, cut my ambition / Deny my life ever had a mission.” Another standout is more mellifluous The Great Plains, in which sees Eaves recalls a youth idolising her older sister Dora. “She was so demure and mermaid-like,” recalls Eaves, “and I was ruled by my emotions – and the harder I tried not to be, the more I realised I could never be like her.” On this track her voice because even more child-like and sugary: “As I erupt into a blaze /It’s ok the sky will do the same/Let no-one bat an eye when /Every year I’ll hibernate till May/Because no-one blames the clouds for rain/So take me as I am, tears down my face.” Among other highlights comes Daisy Chain Reaction, filled with a power pop sheen concealing lyrics about culture of competitiveness around eating disorders. Filled with ups and downs, and frustrations, it’s a cathartic, voluminous album and a fine debut expressing the feelings of many in their mid-20s. Out on Secretly Canadian.
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