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Nervous- The Neighbourhood 3-9-6-0- Small Time Giants <3></3- Small Time Giants No Excuses Just Explanations- Small Time Giants Heart Shaped Pillow- Small Time Giants Ones and Zeros- Small Time Giants Typhoon- Young The Giant Heavenly- Pale Waves As you can see, I've been listening to a lot of Small Time Giants. They're a really good indie band from Greenland, a bit like a cross between Coldplay, U2, and The Wombats.

The Neighbourhood have been on fire recently, with two EPs of varying styles, and now a whole upcoming 18-track album. There may even be a "mixtape" EP after that, so that two year drought after Wiped Out! has definitely been filled. And now, this single, expressly for that album, also called The Neighbourhood... The start of the song has some atmospheric synths, and some typical NBHD lyrics. There's also decent electronic drums and later some good acoustic ones, too. More importantly, some winding bass and faraway but very thankfully still there guitars weave in and out of the background. The song isn't very fast or loud, but it shows great artistry sometime not entirely found in some of their previous quite and slow songs. The second verse picks up more steam, and even though the guitar is too low it works with the mix. Towards the end another guitar with a different riff comes in, fitting the song much better and having a thankfully higher volume. This song is

Pale Waves exploded into the world last year with a tour with The 1975 and the almost-hit singles Television Romance and There's A Honey, produced by the very same The 1975. Then they released the singles New Year's Eve and My Obsession for the three track New year's Eve EP, but later released The Tide as a third single and made the EP four tracks long. The EP starts with New Year's Eve, and some synthes that seem to float with the angels and Heather Baron-Gracie's voice echoes just below them. Then in launches a slow guitar riff made of the interplay between the two guitars. The chorus is a bit, faster, a good tempo for the uncertain lyrics. This song is well produced, with the electronics and filters all working very well. The Tide has a bit of a better riff, with just as good mixing, production and mixture of instruments. There's no stopping Pale Waves, so they move through all the different verses and choruses with perfect instrumental backing, and then