Eyes Wide Smile is a mini-album masquerading as a full length, and isn't even a "proper" LP, rather a compilation of early demos. The
Moira Lambert-fronted
Faith Over Reason sure could've had me fooled if I didn't know better, as this record flows with not only seamless continuity but the kind of care and perfectionism that most outfits couldn't muster on their sharpest day in the studio. Contemporaries with the likes of the Sundays, Shelleyan Orphan and The Cranes, albeit with a mildly more pronounced acoustic lilt, Faith Over Reason skewed a bit closer to the hipster, UK indie scene of whom they were certainly a byproduct of. In the grand scheme of things they seemed to have been rarely, if ever, name-checked alongside the aforementioned, and saw little promotion in the States.
Eyes Wide's "Not So" and "Sofya" best exemplify what this coed quartet were capable of, and illustrate that Faith's comparatively low profile was to everyone's disadvantage. A passionate reading of Nick Drake's "Northern Sky" is also an enormous treat.
01. Lullaby (mother love)
02. Sofya
03. So Free
04. Northern Sky
05. Song for Jessica
06. Evangeline
07. Not So
08. Eyes Wide Smile
09. Fallen
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1 comment:
As is so often the case ... now I have to find the rest. This is lovely.
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