{"id":3797,"date":"2016-10-25T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-hurry-casual-feelings-ep\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T22:16:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T22:16:01","slug":"album-review-hurry-casual-feelings-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-hurry-casual-feelings-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Hurry – Casual Feelings EP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just imagine for a second that a band responsible for one of the most perfect pop albums of the year had been holding out on us, keeping some of the good stuff back just for themselves?<\/p>\n

As that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happened in the case of Hurry<\/b> and their latest EP, the wonderfully perky \u2018Casual Feelings\u2019<\/i>. Back in the Spring, Matt Scottoline\u2019s indie-popsters Hurry<\/b> released the musically stunning and lyrically pensive \u2018Guided Meditation\u2019<\/i><\/a>; an album blessed with some of the most wonderful melodies this side of Teenage Fanclub yet a thematic, mental health preoccupation that unfurled differing layers of strife and struggle.<\/p>\n

This short EP \u2013 three saccharine shots of indie-pop joy \u2013 sit aside from \u2018Guided Meditation\u2019<\/i>, and while almost certainly culled from the same sessions (one of the songs is even called \u2018Guided Meditation\u2019<\/i>) have a different feel \u2013 musically and thematically \u2013 to the parent material.<\/p>\n

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One thing remains the same though; Scottoline is a wonderful storyteller, smart with what he tells you and clever with what he holds back. The title track comes armed with an optimism to match the up-tempo power-pop, yet it still hints at unrequited love rather than a relationship. \u201cIt\u2019s not my fault I\u2019m crazy for you\u201d<\/i> pleads Scottoline, pointing at an unreciprocated relationship, but never fully committing. \u2018All Night\u2019<\/i> goes further still; the story weaves in and out of the narrators head yet is grounded in a bar where Scottoline wants to dance with his partner \u201call night long\u201d<\/i>. Doubts and confusion come crashing out yet, yet there\u2019s a pretence to keep things normal and just enjoy the moment for what it is.<\/p>\n

Gorgeous, bittersweet and subtle, it makes for an intoxicating experience when teamed with Hurry<\/b>\u2019s breezy and infectious melodies. And, it means if you\u2019ve missed out on the delights of \u2018Guided Meditation\u2019<\/i>, you\u2019ve got some catching up to do\u2026<\/p>\n

4\/5<\/p>\n

\u2019Casual Feelings’<\/i> EP by Hurry<\/b> is out now on Lame-O Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Hurry<\/b> links: Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a>|Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Rob Mair (@BobNightMair<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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