In sonic terms, MothBreath makes music that sits somewhere between trip-hop’s lullabye-like down-tempo charm and dream-pop’s drifting seduction. In poetic terms, it feels like music made sat under that aging willow tree in the shady and secluded corner of the garden. (You can always tell when I fall for a band, my writing goes all Walt Whitman!)
As the warm weather rolls in, the days lengthen, and our solar-powered selves feel more alive, the four songs here are the perfect soundtrack for such golden days. Four sublime tracks which, whilst not necessarily subjectively elemental, sonically feel part of the natural cycle, if not directly expressing a longing for the return of those endless summer evenings, musically channeling them.
The title track opens the EP up, a shuffling, woozy blend of heat and haze and harmony, a gentle flow of whispered intimacy and sonics that you seem to bathe in rather than listen to. “Sometimes I Run” moves along on a heartbeat groove, atmospheric and deftly drawn, its inherent spaciousness the perfect frame for Kirsty Dougall’s sublime vocals.
And if “Nothing Will Stay the Same” ticks along on chilled dance beats and brooding bass pulses, “Be Still My Heart” is contrastingly a brilliant torch song ballad, albeit one that is distinctly MothBreath.
Dream dance for the modern age? Elemental pop? Ethereal indie? It doesn’t matter what you call it, all that matters is that you take this music to your heart…and you will, oh boy you will!
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