Sometimes you’ll hear a track that sounds so summery you can
guarantee that it basically bleeds sunshine; the kind of song that takes you
back to childhoods spent riding bikes for hours, achieving nothing and wasting
a whole lot of time. Before you wonder if I'm having some kind of break down
let me explain; this song brought me back there, in part due to the video which
features a lot of skateboarding but also due to the actual sound of the track.
With one of the most delicate and hauntingly beautiful
voices I've heard in a very long time, courtesy of lead singer and guitarist Michelle
Zauner ‘Little Big League’ release their debut video for ‘My Very Own You’, a
track taken from their debut LP ‘These Are Good People’.
Let’s get it underway by saying it’s comparable to a lot of
90’s alternate rock acts, notably The Smashing Pumpkins and Sonic Youth; But
while saying that you can also see the influence of both The Velvet Underground
and Lou Reed’s solo work, a lot of ways I’d say it’s a spectacular homage to ‘Satellite
of Love’.
On to my judgement of the track itself, if you’ve got this
far you’ll have already realized I love it with all the comparisons I have made.
The graceful escalation from the initial opener of the song to the powerful and
almost raucous piece towards the end come so organically you’re left feeling
like someone has drove you to the top of the mountain only to abandon you and
tell you to find your way back down, in a nice way obviously.
The Philadelphia are going to go far, from this track there’s
such a vast collection of influences all brewing that you can tell they've got
so much more creativity left to come and it’s a great future mapped out for
them should they produce work equal to or above what I've heard here; a truly
remarkable track from a band I'm sure will have a bright future ahead.
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