The 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.


Video: "Let It Go" by The Evelyn Room