photo: John Stanley
English singer Opal Mag tackles the perennial subject of relationship hassles on her Goodbye Lavender EP, alternating between hazy leftfield soft spoken pop and shoegaze drenched in soundscapes. She describes the implosion of an affair in slow motion with World End, with key lines "I wanna hit where it hurts" and "Kick me when I'm down", wants to be loved again against better judgment in Kiss Me, and contemplates traveling back in time when the shit had not hit the fan in Young Forever.
The songs are the opposite of Joe Jackson's quip that "happy loving couples have no stories". She has plenty of grudges to bear, raging against the dying of what was supposed to last, by way of slacker rock that wants the other party to hurt and quite possibly bleed.
Goodbye Lavender is released via Venn Records (vinyl - 300 copies, digital).
Tracks:- World End
- Try Not To Hate Everything
- Kiss Me
- Wasting
- Young Forever
- Goodbye Lavender
- 05/29 Banquet Records, London
- 05/30 Truck Store, Oxford
- 05/31 Pie and Vinyl, Portsmouth
