The Phone EP Michaelmas

There is a strong correlation between British music and the weather. Crowded House might think otherwise, but you don’t need to go anywhere to take the weather with you. You can simply follow Michaelmas’ example and incorporate it in your music. Charming Teenage Fanclub jangle guitars and Beach Boys pop melodies are the perfect soundtrack to a bright summer day, if you choose to forget that you live in Britain. Add words of longing, loneliness and shyness and those clouds that make English weather so unpredictable and unique will appear.

Michaelmas create a captivating contrast of blue notes and sunny happy rhythms that pervades The Phone EP whenever singing of love’s labours lost or never quite gained in the upbeat ‘You should bug me’ and ‘Letter to Jo’ or of the joys of being a music geek in the soft, sad country melody of ‘Sadsack’. ‘Whenever you are near’ is a hand clapping pop feast with its own ‘I just called …’ phone monologue to bring the EP to its grand finale.

Finally, Britain has found something good to talk about, and this time it’s not the weather.

Elisabetta P.