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- Listening recommendations: Mistakes
Impressions
I can't believe I
don't know how to start this review. The Mistakes EP is kind
of rather very good, but I'm drawing blanks on how to properly
present it to you, wasfuersohr reader. It's one of the few albums of
it's genre-ilk I've come across, and easily the most accessible to
those not familiar with the lesser know 'Gypsy' subgenre, in this
instance encapsulating “gypsy folk”. I suppose I could say “if
you took the unadulterated fun of gypsy punk: inclusion of
instruments like accordion, trumpets, violins, fiddles and a love of
ska music, and took out the punk, replaced it with songs structured
like folk music as tackled by big band”... ...It probably wouldn't
sound anything like this, but it's how I would best possibly describe
Mistakes to someone else going into this record blind. If
they're not drawn in by the time “The House of Love” has hit its
stride, I can't help them, as he song encapsulated the energetic fun
this music is filled with. “All Your Worth” meanwhile is bit more
folk-y ballad (the lone song in that regard), with a chorus that you
will absolutely feel in your bones. Another thing Euphony has going
for them is the voice of their front woman. She comes at the material
not with the bug-eyed over-excitement that I've come to expect from
gypsy-subgenre music. No, the vocals here are smooth, bluesy even. A
perfect match for the music I feel. The lyrics are also more or less
easily discernible (somewhat unusual for this genre), which goes a
long way towards giving these songs a lasting appeal. I guess not
knowing how to describe it is the best way to jump in. Not easy to
nail down, but certainly worth checking out, the Mistakes EP from Euphony.
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