Little Xs For Eyes

S.A.D

(Self-Released)

Giving Glaswegian cousins Belle & Sebastian and Camera Obscura a run for their money, Dublin’s Little Xs For Eyes are fine purveyors of wistful and nostalgia-laden indie pop. The bookish sextet’s eagerly-awaited debut album is awash with shuffling grooves, twanging guitars and delightful boy/girl harmonies that shine a warm and woozy glow over tragic sentiments of  failed love, loneliness and dejection on kitchen sink vignettes such as lead single ‘In The Light’, ‘In Three Years’ and ‘Summer Never Comes’. And while it’s quirky and wry ‘S.A.D’ is anything but ‘twee’. This is sumptuous and sophisticated pop music with a playful and often sinister twist. Little Xs might use their fey and saccharine guiles to give the impression of being a bunch of insecure shrinking violets but the barbed undertones in their lyrics tell a wholly different tale. These charming indie-popsters have teeth, and knots on their bedposts too! Check out new single ‘In The Light’ in which the age-old quandary of the morning after the night before is summed up in a wonderfully seductive fashion as frontwoman Bennie Reilly coos the lines, “Does your heart quicken pace before my bare morning face, Or do you think, ‘Oh God, I’ve made a mistake’?”  Blending everything from Francoise Hardy to The Velvet Underground, Abba and The Shirelles into their saucy and sensitive tunes, ‘S.A.D’ gives us eleven reasons to be cheerful.

‘In The Light’ is available now as a free download from www.littlexsforeyes.bandcamp.com/

‘S.A.D’ is out on November 7^th 2011