A review of our EP in SoundProof Magazine. For the original article and the SoundProof webpage
click hereThe Evelyn Room - The Evelyn Room EP
By: Eoghan Macguire
The Evelyn Room
The Evelyn Room EP
(Indie)
SOUNDS LIKE: Dark indie rock from Newfoundland.
WHY/WHY NOT: Whether it’s the
long dark nights of Newfoundland winters which permeate the songs of
The Evelyn Room or whether it’s something characteristically darker and
introspective, the intense and serious sound produced on the Canadian
four piece's self-titled EP leaves the listener contemplating matters
infinitely more important than before whence The Evelyn Room was
listened.
Despite the overt influence of the likes of B.R.M.C, Joy Division and Radiohead,
the musical complexities and slow building climax inherent within each
carefully arranged track also lends more than a tip of the hat to
another outer Arctic Circle act in Iceland’s Sigur Rós, albeit it with
a far rockier, direct and conventional end product. This is no more apparent than on the delightfully structured and performed "Close Your Eyes".
However somewhere
along the icy and ball freezing 2,572 kilometre frontier which
separates the relative musical outposts of Reykjavik and Newfoundland,
a rockier component has been added to the mix. This concoction of
styles and influences gives The Evelyn Room an intriguing mix and
sound, and when combined with the dark and brooding lyrical delivery
makes for a very enjoyable listen.
