This EP, We’ll Always Have Vegas, from the multinational band  Modern Guilt, has me hooked from the opening guitar jangling. And not just the music; the lyrics spoke to me.

The opening track, Talking to Myself, has lyrics that speak to me so precisely that I feel they knew me when they wrote them.

Modern Guilt is lead singer and guitar player Jaz, drummer Scott Thomson, Glyn Evans on keys, and Dan Williams holding everything together on bass.

The lyrics from the opening track, Talking To Myself, sent me chills. “Got my future on an eight-track telling me to get back all that I gave away.” I spent half an hour on the internet searching for a stereo amp I owned years ago. Seller’s remorse has me trying to get back all that I gave away.

“Old songs on the radio telling me it won’t go back where it was before.”

I still enjoy listening to old songs, which occasionally give me a warm fuzzy feeling but never take me back to where I and that song were before. For a handful of songs, it’s good that the song and I don’t go back; it just stirs up negative memories. I prefer to let those songs stay where they are, firmly planted six feet under in the past.

Frontman Jaz states, “the new EP is about the fruitless, delusional and intoxicating arc of reaching into the pit of ourselves and having a good rummage around, chasing complete pleasure and the internal narratives, stories and monologues that accompany each stage of the rise and fall, from looking for the cure to emptiness and loneliness into the circus of nights in and nights out and back to the beginning again.”

Produced by Mikey Buckley, the tracks reflect the narrative and environment. ‘Talking To Myself‘ and ‘Joy Control’ are jagged and direct, while the band’s sound expands further on ‘I Wanna Show You God‘ and ‘How To Buy Happiness‘, introducing space and warmer tones through acoustics and percussion. EP closer ‘Gramophone Remedy‘ pulls the listener back; it’s an orchestral heartbeat with fragility and melancholy.

The EP will have a brand new video for the recent single ‘Talking To Myself’ directed by acclaimed filmmaker Ross Scott.

Modern Guilt will celebrate the release with an EP launch show at Sebright Arms, London, on Wednesday 6th, March.

6 MAR | SEBRIGHT ARMS, LONDON | TICKETS

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