Simple pleasures. A new, eponymous four track EP from Mt. Misery a young band from Hartlepool, a town in Northern England where the one thing you never do is make the 'monkey hanger joke' because it's something that never goes down well. Apologies to the band for referencing it here.
It's plain from the start that we're in very safe hands. Young romanticists clearly, Mt. Misery also have a strong grasp on melodic and tuneful songwriting and delivery, the way things used to be done in the Nineties by the likes of Travis and Teenage Fanclub and, going back further still, to Aztec Camera, between their Postcard singles and High Land, Hard Rain.
It's a while since I've heard such easy lyricism and craft from a group as young as this. Thanks as always to the ever reliable A Pessimist is Never Disappointed site which unerringly points me in the direction of so much that I immediately love and post about on here. Each of the songs on Mt. Misery is a fresh peach. Alongside Babehoven, which I wrote about a few days back, this is the best EP I've heard thus far this year and is one I recommend to you unreservedly.
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