Band: Soft Bullets
Release: Hyperreality (EP)
Release Date: 12/11/2012
Soft Bullets pretty much live up to their name – softened and fluffy sugar coated bullets of genre twisting indie, soaking up the best of Portishead. The Hyperreality EP covers much ground across its four tracks. Keane-esque piano? Sorted! Portishead style beats? Got ya there man! That said, the band avoid slipping into territory already covered by these heavyweights.
As the chart pop (and much of the indie world) generation dive headfirst into 200 beats a second hyperactive superhits, it’s rare to find a record that just sits back and appreciates the beauty in the spaces and tender moments, as well as the melodic uppers that pop records so often contain. Few bands master subtleness so well; perhaps the likes of Radiohead and Spiritualized. Ghostly harmonies and sleepy tempos rule supreme across an EP textured with subtle beauty and soothing melodic qualities. Bring on the album!
9/10
Reviewer: Martin-John Donnell
