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Jeniferever/The Next Autumn Soundtrack "Split EP"
(Big Scary Monsters)

Long acknowledged as a cost-effective, low-risk way to discover new bands, the split EP format has been undergoing something of a renaissance recently, a development underpinned by the latest from the marvelous Big Scary Monsters and Toddler labels, who share the costs here. Sweden’s Jeniferever are up first with complex, deeply layered melodies shored up by incessantly powerful drumming that on the one hand summons an image of Radiohead in rock mode, on the other the delicacy of emo. It’s most definitely not emo though, and neither are The Next Autumn Soundtrack, even though there are definite echoes of Jimmy Eat World and Small Brown Bike here. The similarities are clear, but where they differ is in the feeling. There’s no grumbling or faux-sensitivity here, rather, The Next Autumn Soundtrack just play how they feel, and they feel good.

3,5/5

/Fela Lewis
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