Sea Salt - Songs You Can Sing Underwater - Download (2012)

Labels: self released
Review by: Andy Malcolm

Some rather lovely emo pop here from these guys, I particularly am rather taken with the breathy vocals that mean this sounds way like the Jealous Sound on the cracking opener “œHome Siq”. It’s all upbeat and a little cheesy but in the days when emo pop is pretty much a non-existent genre, I am always going to be ready for a little cheese to come and sweep me away into a tide of smiles. Later, they inject a serious amount of jazzy bounce into “œRun on Sentences” which was also nice. The acoustic leanings that they have going on with “œDying In Bed Alone” (so ‘mo) are slightly less appealing, but not disastrously so, just I prefer when they stick to the pop songs.

So hey, we have 5 tracks here – it’s all so uncomplicated and unburdened of pretense. Gentle, homemade indie/emo for those days when you can’t get your head around anything else. Good work.