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It comes as a tape, in its own little sewn bag. The two bands featured upon it both have slightly odd names and you have (unless you make a habit of reading this blog) almost certainly never heard of them before.
I can see you running away already.
Come back, I haven’t gone frighteningly hip on you, because while certain things about the Nai Harvest / Papayer split may seem clichéd, the music itself is top notch. It takes two bands right on the sharp end of the British Emo scene (and I mean real emo here, do your fucking research) and puts them together to create a short but sweet taste of what a few talented people can do if they put their minds to it.
Nai Harvest first, purely because you may have heard of them before. Their two tracks on this, ‘Tim Helped Me Get Over It’ and ‘Distance Etc.’ are very much in the dual vocal, dreamy guitar featuring vein of their debut EP ‘Ceiling Summer’. The first track, starting with a spoken word motivational speech that is almost as positive as Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday, is a thrash of guitar and cymbals that bounces along one moment and takes five the next. ‘I miss my windowsill where I sit to lighten up’ sings Ben Thompson, although the sheer joy in the music itself tells a different story. ‘Distance Etc.’ is slightly more laid back (slightly) where the band ask ‘Why do I always try so hard?’ and the guitar reaches its snakelike finest hour.
The first two tracks on the EP however, are not from Sheffield’s finest. Instead Derby’s Papayer (no I don’t know what it means either) start things off. ‘This is where we draw a line, old friend of mine’ sings vocalist Tom near the start of the mess of spastic drums and guitars that is opening track ‘Pierre’. Before the punklike trash of the song’s final third you could be mistaking in thinking it lacked a little energy. After there can be no doubt the opposite is true. ‘Brand Partnership’ sees group vocals in full force over chiming guitars right up to its seismic ending. Both tracks complement each other nicely, and indeed both bands do too.
Four songs is perhaps a little short for new listeners to get a full grasp of either band but it’ll serve as a nice introduction at the very least. Keep your eyes peeled and your ears open.
(The split can be downloaded for free from both Nai Harvest and Papayer’s respective bandcamps. Both bands also have more music up for download there and songs on the Party Wounds Records compilation ‘Far Away Friends’)
And another thing...
While I'm on the subject of emo/melodic-hardcore check this, the first song by Windsor band Hindsight. Yes they are a local band and yes I know some of its members, but seriously, this is mind blowing.
http://www.facebook.com/hindsightsuk?sk=app_178091127385
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