Eastern Barbers // Maya
Having seen the quartet a few weeks back, they already seem like one of those young bands with an outrageously well defined sound, so it’s no surprise that ‘Maya’ is operating in the same shadows that ‘Shallow’ was playing around in. Ghostly echoes of production slide underneath the sort of jazzy nihilism that King Krule deals in, and the xx’s black-and-white take on south London life finds itself pushed down new avenues. It’s spectral and affecting stuff from a band with seemingly as many ideas as they have gloomy, overcast atmospheres. Everybody’s Elsewhere is available on Bandcamp. previously… |