The Sinking Feeling
Old Friends

THE REVIEW

Young talents, young emo-kids are also growing up in old Europe.
The Sinking Feeling are three very young guys from Glasgow, specifically Kenni Campbell (guitar and vocals), Alastair Fletcher (bass and vocals), and Joanne Currie (drums and vocals).
After debuting a year ago with their self-titled EP, they return a year later with this second EP titled "Old Friends," once again under Struggletown Records.

Their emo, rather than looking at their almost countrymen Crash Of Rhinos (although the approach to the subject is similar) or the desperate post-rock openings of the very Italian Fine Before You Came, flirts with rhythms closer to the most sincere punk-rock (the opener "Snakeblood"), also letting themselves be charmed by grunge-scented guitars ("Difference"), only to place a "Depends" with those arpeggios and that chorus deserving a ten out of ten, rightfully among the most intense songs I had the pleasure of listening to this summer that is now history.

Closing this short 4-track EP is the brief title track "Old Friends," where, contrary to the three episodes that preceded it, a more conciliatory and thoughtful approach is favored, almost a coming to terms with and resignation, even reading the text, before the unexpected unrestrained screams of the singer take over and close the work beautifully.

Soundtrack of a summer coming to an end, soundtrack for reflective people, vaguely existential, who like to cradle themselves in a sea full of reassuring melancholic waves, with the possibility, however, of reconciling with themselves and then returning to the shore.

Unfurl their daisy.