Jenny Jones, lead vocalist of Carlisle band Birds Vs Planes, is an emotional gal, and she and her band don’t half make you feel it on their debut EP, Narrow Angles. Things start off bright and breezy, with Jones’ allowing her seemingly extravert personality to shine through on opener and lead single, Relative Worth, whilst the outfit sound especially similar to very-LA based duo Best Coast, only less glum and sounding as if they’re actually capable of raising a smile.
Matters turn for the worse towards the end of the record, though by no means musically: the first half of Little Blue being not too dissimilar to The xx illustrates an ultra-sensitive side most wouldn’t have expected the five-piece to have in them, with the fact that Jones transformed this sorrow into anger being especially evident on moody closer Shock Tactics. Both the band and listener dabbling in the entire emotional spectrum, then.
What’s remarkable is that although they provoke such feelings in so many dimensions, when it comes to producing the music BVP stick to so few – there are no frills, they don’t try to be anything they’re not, and the EP is enormously listenable as a result.
4/5
Released by Music Bakery in late January 2013
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