My Review: Reardon Love - Enfant Terrible

 My Review 

Reardon Love - Enfant Terrible

Members are:

Matt Fletcher - Vocals/Guitar

Esther Fletcher - Vocals 

Josh Chesman - Guitar/Keys

Dan Wilby - Bass Guitar 

Cauly Blake - Drums

Every journey requires research, effort, fragments, reflections and a vision capable of synthesising it all and continuing to maintain the enthusiasm to live it. 

How true this is for the band from Hull that has come now to its fourth single: with all this beauty we can only hope that an album will soon arrive to satisfy our appetite.

There is something magically sad about it, a feeling that lingers throughout their latest single 'Enfant Terrible', the belief that within the body of this art project gentle aptitudes reside that face life by writing jets of light which, starting in the North East of England, can find their way into every caring soul in the world.

A low, respectful light, that does not want to dazzle but to be a delicate point of reference. As if it could be a comet that travels inside us and not in the sky. 

The song can refer to the poetry of New Model Army with the same ability to make us sink into bitter awareness. There is something highly cinematographic that captures our attention and gives us multiple and clearly generous feelings, like a mystery that keeps growing. 

And they manage to make you dance by putting thoughts in your mind that are also dancing, like Citizens! and The Killers were able to do, in a pleasantly addictive flow.

I wouldn't look for a definition of the musical genre they propose: it would be limiting and certainly offensive, since beauty is all that defines them perfectly and also because in their being captivating we already have everything we need. 

An initial bass, keyboards, then the guitar and the bass take us to the rarefied zone of Matt's voice and the dance begins with shiny eyes, the emotion comes to envelop us and it's a daydream that swims inside these guitars that, like perfect accomplices, seduce us.

And it is a seduction that goes through our stomach and paralyses us at the end of the listening: we have witnessed that it is still possible to write music and words in order to join a mystery that for three minutes and twenty seconds anaesthetises the superficiality of this existence.

A splendid comeback that could give birth to a spark of inevitable love in many people...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld 

Salford

4th April 2022

Out on th April 2022

You can also pre-save the track on your streaming platform of choice here: https://kycker.ffm.to/enfantterrible