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I can’t remember the last time I was this impressed with songs’ rhyming structures (outside hip hop that is). It’s like if I worked at a post office. But I’m so glad she does it.

It’s a tiny detail, but as another example of the band’s thoughtfulness, listen to the triangle ding that starts the verse on the song ‘Passengers’.Īs someone with the last name Stamp, I wonder how many jokes Brooke Singer had made about her name even before she was the vocalist in a band. Each one is a pleasant surprise. Singer said it’s about having big feelings, and trying to keep them contained, which to me reflects the album’s balance of musical complexity with those universal emotions that don’t explode, but simmer. It’s meticulously constructed without sounding overworked, and while the marketing and so on makes it clear these are Singer’s songs, there’s diplomacy in the way they’re put together.Īn obvious example is the way Ben Lemi’s voice is given room to breathe in the call and response on the album’s poppiest track ‘Walk the Desert’. That’s one of those songs that keeps unfolding, presenting new chords when you thought you had it figured out. In terms of craft, the album is faultless. Again, I’m tempted to just quote the whole song, but here’s a line that contains volumes: listing the sentimental detritus in her home, she sings “a picture I drew that I gave to no one, there was no one I knew to give it to”.

'The Dark Arts' creates poetry out of hoarding things, an idea that spins off into metaphor. Something that makes you calm but also makes you think”

She gives great sound bite, and as tempted as I am to just read them all out, it would fill up this whole review.īut let’s start with one, her description of the album as “a warming cup of tea accompanied by serious newspaper. In the run up to the new French for Rabbits album The Overflow, I’ve been almost as impressed with songwriter Brooke Singer’s quotes about the album as I am with the finished product.

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