[Stream] Tall Ships – s/t EP

Ahhh – more goodness from the Big Scary Monsters stable! This time, in the shape of Tall Ships, who are allowing us to stream their entire EP for your aural pleasure!

This is surprisingly ace and classy stuff for a debut and a slight change of attack for BSM. There’s LOUD keyboards, there’s gentle melodies and heart-wrenching lyrics. Opening track ‘Books’ is a beautiful slice of pop music, a song of lost love set in the confines of a giant library, wondering around the acres of books trying to forget the pain of losing something close. ‘Words Are Pegs Upon Which We Hang Ideas’ is the sound of The Books if they’d listened to more guitar bands, wonderful 50′s public announcements are woven into chiming guitars and upbeat, bouncing rhythms.

Anyway, enough of my nonsense. Listen for yourself:

Tall Ships – Tall Ships EP by bsmrocks

And if you like that, you can catch the band on tour from Friday:

June
11 Brighton, The Freebutt
13 London, Old Blue Last
14 Southampton, Goblet’s (w/ Grown Ups, Into It. Over It, Run Walk, Marwood)
15 Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach
16 Birmingham, Flapper