Posts Tagged ‘Reckless Records’

PANIC POCKET – ” Pizza In My Pants “

Posted: March 28, 2019 in MUSIC
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Panic Pocket, the DIY-duo, consisting of long-term BFFs Natalie and Sophie, have come a long way since their debut at First Timers Fest back in 2017. Now signed to the increasingly crucial Reckless Records label, the pair are set to release their debut EP, “Never Gonna Happen”, next month. four tracks about bad bosses, joyless sexual encounters and falling for people you only know through Instagram. Pizza In My Pants, isn’t just a great title, it’s also an exciting fleshing out of Panic Pocket’s sound. While earlier recordings, and their unmissable live show, have been as minimal as keyboard and guitars; here prominent bass and drums, courtesy of fellow DIY-alumni Wolf Girl, add a more driving punkier feeling to proceedings. At the heart of it, the Panic Pocket appeal remains the vocal interplay of Natalie and Sophie; here Natalie’s harmonious lead-lines are perfectly backed by Sophie’s more resonant, almost dead-pan counter melodies.

Lyrically, the track continues to walk the tight-rope between comic indifference and a quarter life crisis. Pizza In My Pants seems to laugh in the face of societal expectations in a world where women are still expected to be settled down with a few kids sooner rather than later. You can almost hear the nagging undertones, as they describe being told how Rachel’s got ring on her finger, and Emma’s shacked up with her banker husband in a house in suburbs. At the heart of it, Panic Pocket are quite happy without all that in their lives,

Never Gonna Happen feels like a triumphant moment for the band, proof of the power of friendship, fun and personal expression to create wonderful, relatable music. They might be the DIY-scene’s best kept secret, yet increasingly it’s hard to see them staying that way, Panic Pocket could be stars in the making.

Music by Sophie Peacock and Natalie Healey

Never Gonna Happen is out April 12th via Reckless Records.

CHORUSGIRL – ” Shimmer and Spin “

Posted: December 20, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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With the release of Shimmer and Spin, the second album by London-based janglers Chorusgirl. A record that chronicled a particularly difficult year in the life of chief songwriter Silvi Wersing, and in some ways served as an anchor, through which she was able to pull herself through.

Ahead of the album’s release, the band have this week shared the video to new single, In Dreams. The track is musically something of a departure for the band, the underrated rhythm section are to the fore, with prominent bass and a frankly brilliant drum beat creating a base around which skeletal guitar lines and vocal melodies flourish and bloom. If musically it’s Chorusgirl as you’ve never heard them before, lyrically it’s something of a companion piece to an older track, This Town Kills. It deal with small town anxieties and the power of dreaming to inspire you to escape a place you never fit in. As Silvi sings, “Sunday afternoon forever, waiting for the brighter weather, rainy doom and gloom forever inside this small town torment”, it’s the sound of staring out the window, lost in your own thoughts, knowing one day you’ll find a way to belong. It’s accompanied by an excellent handmade video courtesy of animator Ruth Barrett, created using over 2500 manually cut out paper prints. More challenging, more intriguing, more themselves than ever, Chorusgirl might just be turning a tumultuous year into a musical triumph.

Shimmer and Spin is out 16th November via Reckless Records 

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