{"id":76428,"date":"2019-02-19T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=76428"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T13:25:17","slug":"review-dear-seattle-dont-let-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-dear-seattle-dont-let-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Dear Seattle – Don’t Let Go"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sydney’s Dear Seattle<\/strong> are the latest Aussie’s to deliver beer-soaked melodic punk. This debut full-length comes off the back of two infectious singles in ‘Daytime TV’<\/em> and ‘Maybe’<\/em>. Along with ‘Try’<\/em>, they handed the quartet plenty of momentum in the hope of delivering a stellar debut album.<\/p>\n

For those familiar with bands such as The Smith Street Band and Violent Soho will feel right at home with Dear Seattle<\/strong>; catchy and sentimental yet unequivocally Australian. And while its arrival comes with plenty of potential, it isn’t quite fulfilled.<\/p>\n

Their cause isn’t helped by the aforementioned pairing of ‘Maybe’<\/em> and ‘Daytime TV’<\/em> being frontloaded early on, setting the bar high. Both are instantly memorable, solidifying fun gang vocals that appear throughout ‘Don’t Let Go’.<\/em> The latter is especially brash and upbeat with \u201cDa Da Da Da\u201d<\/em> chants.<\/p>\n

Although the remainder isn’t completely forgettable;\u00a0‘Bigger Than My Brain’<\/em> is carried with a boisterous drive and feedback-drenched riffage. While ‘Homegrown’<\/em> is equally melancholy and brash with a hopeless, youthful spirit serving as its lyrical spine yet Brae Fisher isn’t afraid to be candid; “All I need is some degree of honest self-esteem.”<\/em><\/p>\n