The Verve
Verve EP

This is my third review.
I would like and am still trying to negatively review some albums, but I can't take my eyes off those albums that truly impressed me and that I can't help but praise.
This time it's THE VERVE EP.
The Verve were one of the most underrated bands of the '90s... their work went unnoticed until the boom of "Urban Hymns", and unfortunately, following this fabulous album, they disbanded. They have been gone since 1999, but before the release of "A Storm In Heaven" (a small masterpiece of modern psychedelia, in my opinion!) there was this mini EP of only five songs, truly interesting.

The throbbing bass of Simon Jones introduces "Gravity Grave" and the impossible feedback of the legendary guitarist Nick McCabe, the dreamy voice of Mr. Ashcroft, and the exquisite technique of Pete Salisbury... the Verve welcome you with this opening piece, but it is nothing compared to "A Man Called Sun" - little bells resonate in the wind and a bitter jazz backdrop dictated by the bass and the "brushed" drums, Ashcroft's increasingly dreamy voice, and this is the piece we asked for from music.
In "She's a Superstar" we have the classic brit-rock that the Verve would nevertheless adopt from "A Northern Soul" onwards... the song, however, has moments of calm flatness and a remarkable burst of guitars.
"Endless Life" may be too repetitive, but it is part of the musical spirit of the album and faithfully follows its characteristic traits.
"Feel," the masterpiece of the album, 10 minutes and 41 seconds of music that seems to have come out of a dream. Calm, serene, the instruments never clash, at least until the 7-minute mark where gradually the music continues to rise but never assaults the listener's ears, who by the end of these 31 and a half minutes will feel projected out of the world, into a place where dreaming continues called VERVE.
In reality, I couldn't give it a 4.5 but the album, trust me, is not a 4!