Highfield - EP (Bandcamp Name Your Price)

 

Highfield are part of Philadelphia's Sister Molecule Collective and another discovery via our Listening To This Week playlist which is certainly turning up long(er) players lately. They are wonderfully noisy, but melodic and when they hit a groove, they don't half hit it.

The Home Screen is a sort of Garage Psych, but they travel further into the likes of New Wave, R and B, Punk and even Hard Rock. The opener, Still An Empty Vessel is New York Garage, but with vocalaccompaniment that could be Russell Mael.

I Promise Things That I Don't Deliver is punkier, but delivered at a frantic pace. To Go Away has a lot in common with the new breed of Noisier Power Pop, yet will also appeal to both Indie Rock and Psych fans. Failed Expectations calms things down a little, more groove, but wonderful instrumentally.

Highfield even shoe in a 35 second Thrash in Have To Keep Learning. Vows And Visions is even more different, close to Classic Rock and you can hear that on the new LTTW. I was completely blown away by the EP, louder than we normally feature on here, but just as satisfying. 

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You can listen to and buy the EP here. You can listen to other bands in the collective here.

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