Title track, For The Love of Mia, is a deeply contemplative number that starts slowly with a gentle building piano part, but which progressively introduces other instruments to rise to an impassioned musical crescendo before fading out at the end.

Third track, Summud, returns to the realms of rhythmic experimentation. The intro, which uses the kind of violin sample which would not sound out of place in the score of a horror film, where the protagonist is being stalked though an eerie wood by an unseen assailant, is overlaid with a pulsing guitar to complete the atmospheric effect which continues throughout.

Next up is The Mover, which starts at a somewhat sedate pace but crashes in at the mid-point of the song to live up to its name. Introducing an energetic bass-line, the song picks up the pace and soon guitars and vocals drive The Mover to become one of the more powerful tracks on the EP.

Tracks five and six, Snakes and Lions and Time respectively, fail to live up to the standard of the preceding tracks. Without the flashes of off-beat brilliance which had punctuated the earlier numbers, the EP comes to a rather disappointing conclusion with a pair of fairly slow and uninspiring songs.

As a complete piece, the EP is an excellent achievement from a band who display a penchant for producing high-quality, intelligent indie-rock and who, I’m sure, will play a large part in the continued musical excellence of the city of Leeds.

Andy Duckworth

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