Saturday, 16 April 2011

Therapies Son - Over The Sea EP


Hailing from Van Nuys, California, 19-year-old songwriter Alex Jacob and his gang Therapies Son caught our attention with their dreamy pop tunes drawing influences from the likes of Beach Boys and Flaming Lips.

Over The Sea is the debut 5-track EP released through Sargent House.

On his debut EP Over the Sea, we have the to-ing and fro-ing, galloping playground pop jam "Rose Red Rose", in which the initial whispered, tender intones make way for Technicolor orchestral bursts, glittering melody and breathless, merry-go-round waltzing, rubbing shoulders with the shimmering ebb and flow of the appropriately named "Still I Call", opens up into something more vast, more widescreen, and, with its swirling strings and otherworldly beauty, absolutely not of this epoch. The exquisitely poised heartache of "Touching Down" meanwhile, sounds bizarrely all the more yearning with what sounds like an entire marching band behind it, while "Yellow Mama" kaleidoscopes a whole world of loss and longing into its short running time, Jacobs' hushed vocals guiding the listener gently to a close. A truly one of a kind talent bound to break plenty of hearts of his own in the near future.



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