PUSHER

After a handful of powerful singles and an album, Pusher opt to appease those with a short attention span by collating five differing songs onto one tidy EP. The opener Everything Inbetween continues their foray into muscular gothic post-punk a la The Cult or The Danse Society (minus the eyeliner), before giving way to four further facets of the Pusher sound. On My Own is a percussive tour-de-force that is perhaps the EP's most mainstream song, while The Road is altogether slower, moodier, jazzier even, that manages to out-Mark Lanegan Mark Lanegan himself. Rain scurries by with headlights ablaze before the gorgeous weepy climax Goodbye Earth, Hello Universe steers into view. This track may well become Pusher's signature song of 2015 - it is a little bit special, an epic for all seasons and one to close live sets with.

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Paul PLEDGER
21/01/2015