ANNIE STEVENSON - Someone Else CD-EP

The title track opens this EP from a new young Glasgow band and it's a mid-paced slice of indie intensity with a huge sound, a sea of harmony vocals, sizzling backdrop of electric guitar riffing, rhythms that lurch, drive and sound positively dramatic, as the lead vocal wanders from solo emotion into multi-layered chorus with a natural ease as the band provides a track that sounds fantastic and more like a band many years their senior in terms of quality and approach. “Bue Tae And Hate Dred” is more of a jaunty number, less intense, with sneering vocal, jangly guitar, tambourine rhythm, bouncing bass and chugging drums – then it goes supernova – as the scything guitar figure is unleashed – before veering back to the main verse – and this is its pattern – and it's superb as another novel and individual take on modern indie songwriting and arranging lights up your life. “Wave In Your Lotus” is slightly slower with a more optimistic vocal and jangly guitars that are briefly interrupted by a wave of guitar riffs for something that's almost a hook, but the whole song with all its layers and lightness above the sizzling undercurrents, really has a hypnotic effect with a sense of light and shade to its arrangement that really hits the spot. Finally, “Original Widescreen Versions Of Ourselves” ends things with a soaring lone guitar figure above cymbal splashes as a mournful lead vocal plus a sudden explosion of guitars takes centre stage, veering rapidly from one part to the other before the harmony vocals emerge and the song effortlessly drives forward, slow and mid-paced but its sense of light and shade, dramatic and sedate, making it something to treasure. Overall, this is a band doing something decidedly original to indie music and if this is just their beginning, a career to be watched with intent.

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