Is everybody is Glasgow unhappy? Certainly there appears to be no shortage of singer songwriters with a bad case of the melancholy. To that very collection we must add one more - Gareth Perrie.
This EP has five well performed piano driven tracks that seem determined to depress you. You would think that having obvious musical talent - as he undoubtedly has - would be a cause for celebration but the overall feeling of these songs does take us (or rather him) into self pity territory. His words lack the eloquence of someone like Robert Wyatt and he seems to have managed to avoid picking up anything at all uplifting from his musical contributor, the underrated Adam Ross.
Maybe Gareth Perrie should look up at the sky every now and then for there is much beauty out there to celebrate. Such an approach didn't do Ben Folds any harm, did it?