Patience is a quality that many music aficionados often lack. Why stick around and search one whole track for the hook buried within when you can plough through ten tuneless intros in the same time? ‘Far Away’, the new song from Fat Possum signatures, Mean Lady, takes a whole precious minute to get going but when it does, the rewards are bountiful and even more sweet.
The Baltimore trio whisk us away from an intro of flickering piano chords and disorientating synth swells to a far more pleasantly upbeat plane. The chintzy pianos taking on a grander, more crystalline quality; pricking away at wafts of Eastern strings and fidgety percussion.
Vocalist Katie Dill puts on a typically assured show, her dulcet repetitions of “I Will Call Your Name” swaying like foam atop Sam Nobles’ cool tropical waves of melody. We doubt Mean Lady care about the turnaround in our weather of late but we’ll thank them anyway for helping out with the soundtrack.
‘Far Away’ will feature on Mean Lady’s debut LP Love Now. Out 23 July via Fat Possum.
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