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Big Deal, Lights Out
Opening track, Distant Neighbour, combines Costelloe's beautiful vocals with Underwood's understated backdrop. The mix of semi-shimmered acoustic guitar with fuzzy, distorted electric intertwine to make it easy to get lost in.
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Chair is stripped back with tender tones and heavier interludes of crunching, fuzzed electricity that builds as the song unfolds. Though the album on the whole has a bedroom recording quality to it, nowhere is that more distinct than on Chair.
The ukulele (apparently not!) gets an outing initially on Cool Like Kurt. It's got a real naivety to it, both in the title of the song and the lyrics, taking you back to a 90s youth with slow delusions of seduction and grunge.
Swoon is a slow Sunday morning love song, but it's not as hypnotising as earlier tracks. Homework is simple teenage angst with a lullaby feel, continuing the beauty in sound air of the album.
However, Talk returns to more of a bitter sweet equilibrium with a bit of strength in the guitar arm of Costelloe’s electric and a bitten nature to the lyrics. With the World at My Feet is a dreamer with a distorted guitar, but it lacks the edge to make it gripping.
A slow distortion prevails on Locked Up with shoe-gazer undertones. It confirms the reality that there's no party spirit on Lights Out, but a darkly beautiful storyline. It's a spirit that continues on the duet of Summer Cold with a deep blue riff running through it.
Visions is a great alt-rock duet with dipping intonation in the vocals during the chorus. Definitely a contender for track of the album. However, Seraphine starts out dull and the introduction of Costelloe's vocals don't lift it much beyond that.
Final track, Pi, is a bit too tranquil, returning to the lullaby, but it's a pretty relaxing end to the album.
Though there's a fair bit of melodrama to Big Deal's Lights Out, there's also an entrancing layer of innocence, romance and dark day storylines. Genuinely seductive vocals go hand in hand with a fuzzy distorted electric and shimmering acoustic combination at its best.
Big Deal, Lights Out album review: 3.8/5
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