Mean Sea - Trust Us We Know

 

I've been fortunate to have been able to listen to this 6 Track EP for a while and it has been on constant repeat. The Baltimore Trio have conjured up an absolute treat. I suppose you would call it Indie Rock, but that doesn't cover half the story.

Every second counts. Although you suspect that their heart is in Surf Rock due to the licks that regularly jump in and dominate the magnificent Idiota Blanco. But elsewhere, they venture into Power Pop and even Prog and Pop Punk.. 

Everything is coated in melody and riffs, but others can do this, although not as regularly as I would like. Mean Sea's strength is the unusual unexpected lyrical couplets such as "There'll be a little more. Just To Be Sure."

If there is a better song recorded this year than Puke Mouth, I haven't heard it and the inbox effect after it was played on the IDHAS 10 Song Mix seem to underline that. Workhorse demonstrates how melodic a Power Trio can be, a hint of 80s Indie, but more 90s College Rock and even UK New Wave.

For all of the intensity and pace, the slowed down Should've Stayed In Bed is equally wonderful. Magnificently understated, you sense it would have been easy to break out into the noisier stuff they are so adept at. The fact that they don't is commendable.

Then there is You're In My Thoughts which is possibly the tour de force. A talky verse leads into a prototype Prog Pop, that the likes of Rush mastered in their latter days. Please Swim Back has a poptastic chorus with a hint of The Police in the verse and a dash of Surf Guitar. Highly Recommended doesn't really do justice to how great Trust Us We Know Is.

You can listen to and buy the EP here.

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Listening To This Week

 

A new addition to I Don't Hear A Single!

I Don't Hear A Single largely caters for Album Reviews. Individual Songs don't get much of a look in. There is the IDHAS 10 Song Mix that is really popular, but Mixcloud have recently restricted how many mixes are archived. So I was looking for a way to let you know about songs we like on a weekly basis.

I think many of you know that I don't use Spotify or Apple Music etc. You Tube isn't ideal for anything much and a self compilation raised copyright problems and piracy. So I thought this weekly feature may be the best thing to tell you about these songs. Some may be included on future IDHAS 10 Song Mixes, but so much fights for this space,

This feature is solely for submissions, not the usual stuff that we dig out ourselves.  Please investigate the artists further. We will use band camp links wherever possible. We will continue with this until someone suggests a better way to handle these songs.  The debuts for the first issue of this are :

Mean Sea - Puke Mouth 

Wayne Faler - Milwood Street

Higher Sights - When We Were Young

Lunavela - Six-Out-Of-Ten-Friend

Amphibians - Wouldn't You Like That?

Amphibians · Wouldn't You Like It?

Swan Hill - Unlucky

Peter Johnston RVA - Carrying

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