A small treat in these difficult times is the release of Adding Up, a new EP from Melbourne's Parsnip.
This band is a small wonder and I've featured them on here before. This comes relatively hot on the heels of their debut album When The Tree Bears Fruit, which I listed on my rundown of my favourite records of the year last year.
The four songs here build on the good work put in their. Parsnip's recipe is fairly basic. Sixties Garage, but poppy not fuzzy, day-glo colour, relentless positivity. Childlike wonder. Short and sweet. What's great to hear is how they're managing to find ways to make this simple formula work for them well and keep things fresh at all times.
The four songs here are all small gems. One of them is quite delightfully called Crossword Cheater. one of them steals the riff from I Can't Explain quite blatantly. It doesn't matter at all when put to such good use. Parsnip show us new ways to have old fashioned fun here.
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