You may remember a hypnotic show from Sydney, Australia based art rock, indie pop band the Jezabels at the Slice, Nov. 2.
Since releasing their second EP ‘She’s So Hard,’ in 2009, they spent much of this year playing with people like Tegan and 
Sara, Katie Noonan and Josh Pike and have released their new EP ‘Dark Storm,’ the third in a trilogy of EPs that began in early 2009 with ’The Man Is Dead.’ ‘Hurt Me the lead single from ‘She’s So Hard,’ and the follow up ‘Easy To Love,’ received heavy radio rotation and they are hoping for the same from this EP.
The new EP is keyboard heavy, ambient pop music powered by keyboardist Heather Shannon playing some mournful piano melodies and powerhouse vocalist Hayley Mary who sounds like a more brooding Kate Bush mixed into a blender with Blondie and No Doubt, except more haunting, wavering and ambient. Guitarist Sam Lockwood adds more ambient sounds while drummer Nik Kaloper holds it all together.
The EP is a fun, thought provoking listen.
And Mary’s voice is addictive, especially her cute yelp on ‘ Sahara Mahala.’
She carries some impressive melodies, though the five tracks all tend to blend together in one giant 23 odd minute ambient majestic, musical tapestry. I like the last track “She’s So Hard’ the best with it’s cascading cymbal crashes and the lyric “It think self pity is a state of mind,” leaps out at me, while in the other songs, the melodies come across as more important than the lyrics.
CD: Dark Storm
Band: The Jezebels
Genre: pop
Record Label: Waterfront Records
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