Well this came as a total surprise; after a steady flow of Normil Hawaiians re-issues from Upset The Rhythm over the last few years, the band now present two newly recorded tantalising glimpses into their sonic future.
A-side “In The Stone” is a thrilling pump of guitars and ooozy rhythmics that has Guy Smith and Zinta Egle duetting a prismed intrigue from within those splashy propulsives. A word cage that urgently sharks, curvaceously funnels to a grainy lo-fi focus on pebbling percussives that draw you close to blow you back on the refrain.
The flip “Where is Living?”, on the other hand, decides to dish up a contrasty opposite, introspectively folding in on itself with a half-lit brilliance. An eerie spoken / half-sung obituary to our current predicament shrink-wrapped in the delicate thunder of a gentle sloping backdrop. This is the type of protest that the Normils have thankfully never lost sight of. If this is anything to go by, an album’s worth is going to be nothing short of amazing.-Michael Rodham-Heaps-
