I can cook. I can cook pretty well, I’d say. But I can’t cook a proper pie. Not for the life of me. I seem incapable of cooking a pie without it having some of the more typical pie defects afflicting my pie (runny filling, crumbly crust, etc.). I mean, I could come to your house and you could ask me, “Hey, could you cook me a pie?” and I would answer “Sure, I can cook you a pie” but then you’d realise that, yeah, I can cook a pie, but it’s not a very good pie that I cooked.

I like spacey rock a lot, but not everyone can do it well. It’s the same thing with me and cooking pies. Many people say they can do that kind of music but actually go about in a very uninspired way, doing nothing to stand out from a busy crowd. However, that isn’t the case of Mezzanine Owls. Their song Snow Globe is an avid and vibrant moment of sumptuous dreampop, full of textured guitarwork, self-assured drums and iridescent synths to establish a sonic spectacle anxious to share itself with us. Guitars eddy eagerly, float into flourishing choruses, and swoop into uplifting arrangements which settle themselves into that space between your shoulders, raising a delicate tingle from within your spine. Yet as heroic and superordinate the instrumentation may be, it’s Jack Burnside’s breaking, Dylan-esque vocals, inviting yet lined with ache, which help set the band apart from the low whispering tones usually associated with this kind of stylistic approach.

I guess you could say my pie cooking also sets me apart from the rest; just not in the good sense.

MP3: Mezzanine Owls - Snow Globe

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