4/5
Loving A Jezabel.
Surprise! Christmas has come even earlier this year as holidays are coming faster than pine needles falling off the tree you still haven't had time to put up yet. Hayley Mary has given us another extended play after last years 'The Piss, The Perfume' and 'The Drip' of this years one better release that will never break 'The Chain' of her incredible run, pissing excellence. Right after her fellow band member Heather Shannon released the 'Midnight Sun' of a piano perfect album in quarantine and recovery. All as the band themselves, The Jezabels have announced on the ten year anniversary of their 'Prisoner' they will be unlocking that album and touring it next year in reunion. We'd hope for more from the band itself as we're sure a new album is in the works too, but we've already been so spoilt with such good music from the members of our favourite band and best Aussie one since Michael Hutchence and INXS. Why have expectations, when everything is already so great, Dickens? Now out of nowhere we're told to 'Fall In Love' with Hayley Mary. Way ahead of you. She can't be stopped. Turning the festive sparkle of this album artwork into the actual video visual. Hayley Mary right now is releasing more EP's than record store day. You've got to love it this fall.
Dripping with songs, the last EP gave us one hell of a catchy song released off 'The Chain' and a 4K video of decadence. And the rest of the cuts never let up like asking 'Would You Throw Away A Diamond' in this 'Unholy Winter'. But it was the 'Young and Stupid' lesson over perfect piano that played us a moving message. Pick up that phone, before it's left ringing all alone. "When you’re young and stupid/When you’re young and you think/You got time, you got time to spare/You know that’s just a lie that they tell/Telephone line never gonna ring again/You wouldn’t think it was the last time", the singer who sang, "don't tell me to smile, when for all you know I just buried my mother" warns. Heed that cell and make it. Now, falling in love on this EP's title track with more than an album worth in the bank she sings, "your highs and lows/trials and blows/do we even like the same old songs/do we even really get along", all "window panes", "chillblains" and finger guns in the seventies sparkle of this cuts video. But it's 'The Young' that really hits, stupid. "It's time to go while you still can/it's time to take another chance/when patterns turn to rocks inside your brain/and it saddens me to say/I think it only goes one way/if you stay in town/it'll burn you down/if you stand your ground/you'll go." Wise words from a legend who previously told the young to dial in, now engaging them with message not to hold the line on their own time. Pick it all up.
M.A.R.Y. furthers her signature sound full stop with 'T.E.A.R.' and she really is on a tear. Living and learning with "every teary eye". "If I was you I'd listen/instead of pissing away the years/this is a lesson learned, my dear," she continues on her lyrical vision and mission for people experiencing it to learn from their mistakes and not make the same one like a record on repeat. But we'll keep spinning this one until we waltz like Christoph around that notion like the beautiful old couple in the Jezabels 'Look Of Love' video from 'The Brink' like it was time to dance. Don't waste your time in heartbreak until its too late. Besides this is the time to 'Fall In Love', even if it does come out of nowhere like this EP. Now if that doesn't strike you down, 'Bullet' will like a Steve McQueen car chase in San Francisco for the Sydney singer by way of Byron Bay. The butterfly wings of this new romantic seventies sound floating with lyrics like, "I love that bullet/but I touch and as I see you shooting by/tears well in my eyes/I loved you more." Six shooting us and triggering any nostalgia over the one we used to hold by our waist, who now swipes past with someone else riding shotgun as quick as the dismissing fickle hands of fate going left and leaving us in the dust. It all comes to a close with '27' like that year was just yesterday away and not the age of a decade. "We watched the lives of stars and vagabonds/What future lies your house gets carried on/It's shining in the eyes of whores who'll open doors can have it all at the age of 27." These are the kind of her storytelling legacy making lyrics that Patti Smith or PJ Harvey would be proud of. But this is Hayley Mary's time to love now. And under our trees there's no better surprise this fall. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Playlist Picks: 'Fall In Love', 'The Young', 'Bullet'.
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