Lurch & Chief: BREATHE

Hands down, Lurch & Chief are one of Australia’s best bands that you need to keep an eye on. They’ve just released their second EP and boy is it a stunner – kind of like that blonde haired babe you spotted on the beach the other day. It starts strong with ‘Echo’, a fast paced song that features the spotless vocals from Lilibeth Hall and Hayden Somerville. There’s lots of layering, guitar riffs, yelling lyrics and it achieves just the right level of noise to fill the room.
Breathe seems a lot darker than their past releases, the band have clearly taken things up a level. ‘Breathe Out’ is a great track as it has this dark, broody quality to it. It’d be the perfect track to feature on a ’90s movie, something like The Craft would be spot on. It’s a highlight for me and I hope to hear it gain regular airplay on triple j.
‘Reasonable Man’ is a bit of a so-so track on first listen, but play it a few more times and you’ll warm up to it. Though when it’s surrounded by such high quality tracks it’s only natural that there’s one that slips slightly behind, but it’s only due to its seemingly steady pace and lyrics that just don’t reach out to the listener. The minor lapse is more than made up in closing track ‘Made Me Use’ which continues the broody theme right to the very last second of the EP. This is definitely an EP you need to pick up right now, like this very instant, what are you doing still reading this?
Out now via Illusive
Written by Amanda Sherring