Song reviews

White Birches mix the mystical and the ethereal into their song “Solace” with the result making you feel better than you when you started listening. Maybe that is something magical or maybe it is just what music can do. Either way, it works.

“Little Things” is an energetic song that starts off sounding a bit like brit pop that has been fed on red meat before a tempo shift into lower gear and a return for the high speed big finish establishes Canned Pineapple’s artistic credibility.

Straight down the line rock from Liger with the band adding enough in the way of overwrought lyrics and muscular metallic guitar riffs to give their song “Throne” a fair amount of stadium filling musical credibility.

Wistful female vocals keep Remington Super 60 on the right track and their song “Time To Breathe” duly, and almost casually, evokes thoughts of trippier times over that hypnotic bass line. I might even call this one spiritually uplifting.

There are times when I think that Conscious Pilot want to be a brit pop revival band as their post punk angularity is too often tempered with a regard for melody for coincidence. “Face Down” duly hits that mark again.

in that peculiarly British fashion Hannah Scott sounds distinctly wholesome and naturalistic on “Sitting In The Dark” yet her socio-realistic lyrics highlight that she has a point that needs to be made. A protest song for today, perhaps?

Silva Emilia keeps it simple and straightforward with her song “Pretty Little Life” sounding just like the ideal soundtrack to a segue on some sort of dramatic television series. Pleasant and confidently delivered, nonetheless.

So cool Alex Puddu must have recorded this song in a fridge, “Notte in Riviera” exorcises that retro neo funk sound and then seasons it with some stylish, sometimes French, vocals with the result being a soundtrack for people who wear sunglasses whilst indoors.

Divers sound mature and polished throughout “The Hunt” with their rather more expansive take on their chosen musical genre sounding just like the kind of song that would find favour with those value depth in their musical choices.

“Pretend Like You Belong” sounds like it should be from another time and Lisa Cerbone has taken her wistful singer songwriter vibe and combined it with an endearing sentimentality to make a delicately seasoned sonic confection.

Pomelo use loops stripped from the dancefloor and reapplied in a neo ambient way to give their song “Loreless” that disconnected urban feel with the spoken female vocals being the perfect foil to the beat of the style machine.

Positioned slightly to the left of the mainstream, Gurry Wurry delivers another nearly but not quite pop song in “Have You” with some decent lyrics lifting the song up. A bit different but not so different as to need the services of a translator.