Appropriate Ending

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B-sides: Happiness + Friends Of The Heroes

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Something hit a nerve in me, shook me like a busy theory
Believed in you for all these years, never saw a time that we'd be
Backing out of foreign towns, we're definitely up the wrong tree
And picking off the innocent, all the while you couldn't see

We gave you the world; you're unhappy
Still you don't listen to me
Must be I said the words a little too fast
Or the fact that our opposites are polar

Sparks are flying day and night
If only 'cause we're out of favour
A time will come around again, friend
And then we'll be right back where

It started with another me
Shaking like a busy theory
Believed in you for all these years
And never with a need to worry

We gave you the world; you're unhappy
Still you don't listen to me
Must be I said the words a little too fast
Or the fact that our opposites are polar

You threw away the world, now you're happy
And you're always talking to me
Must be said that my world's a little smaller
But for now, there is colour in my corner of it

Organ Magazine Sophisticated pastoral indie-pop and an uplifting lead track from this year's rather acclaimed No Need To Be Downhearted album. Electric Soft Parade back on top form. The interest here will focus on the Elliott Smith and Amy Linton covers to be found as b-sides.

Visual Music Webzine (French) Happiness is simple as a b-side. Appropriate Ending is out on 26 November and brings a little happiness in our hearts in these early winter temperatures.

Rant Magazine One new song and two covers, their title track is probably their best on the EP. It sounds reminiscent of when guitar-pop was good. When it felt a wash of enjoyment to listen to.

Their cover of Elliott Smith's (R.I.P) Happiness was a damn good job. It felt like listening to an Elliott Smith song, not just in chords and the words, but the mood of Elliott Smith was there, but there was something else as well that made you enjoy it on a different level. It wasn't karaoke, it was the Electric Soft Parade performing an Elliott Smith song, where seemingly both artists were present. Their cover of Amy Linton's Friends of the Heroes was almost dream-pop in it's calming tempo and distant guitars.

There's an air with their music that is very rarely present in modern guitar-pop. Modern guitar-pop is very immediate and punchy and there's nothing behind the notes you're hearing, and this record doesn't fall in to that.