My Review: Sunnbrella - Heartworn

 Sunnbrella - Heartworn

London's dreams are full of sunshine: the Sunnbrella meteor drops them through delicate and essential harmonic laps, a dance step that knows good rhythm and a structure that lets out tender tears in an embrace of the senses that conquer even the most rigid soul. The pedals of the guitars are the manifest declaration of inventions designed to generate the impact of emotions to escape from home and become senses in flight. With obvious crossovers with Dreampop and the most cultured Indie Rock, everything reveals the need for rhythms wrapped in poetry and the desire to create clean air: compositions as oppositions to boredom, to the weak and soft propensity for life. The warmth and joy of living with annexed sadness takes its place, which melts in listening to these notes with warm rays on the skin.

Desire is established in their freshness: their ability is to ally themselves with time to fill it with waves and impulses that remove the clouds from thoughts and legitimise the desire to make musical art an alliance project with intelligence, because the marriage of fun and commitment is undeniable in this record. An example of this is Polyester, a tepid plunge that through its singing grazes the skin with the support of a keyboard and a minimal electronic part that bewitches, up to a mini guitar solo that opens the wings of the dreamy dance.

In this umbrella coloured by sounds that make you smile, comes Defend Urself, with an intro reminiscent of early Curve, then taking on the guise of a song that from the 90s comes to the present day, over an elaborate rhythm section: one of their many moments of great creativity. Alternative and Indie find in Ivy League the operating system to give Dreampop a kiss and allow a light shoegaze to join the party. And if you are as fond as the old scribe of the sumptuousness of Sarah Records, here is the enchanting A Week Or So, a little naked star that radiates the night with the two voices that embrace and conquer the heart in the refrain. 

But the whole of Heartworn presents different stylistic approaches, a gigantic desire to go beyond one's own taste and to erect, rather, a sonic scaffolding that can generate joy: like being on the first day of school, where without enthusiasm one could not make it to the second. This is how the album is: a mental exercise in openness, experimentation, crossovers, impulses, within a studio that allows learning. 

And we get excited, we get impulses, we go back in time but without nostalgia: the band from the English capital has on its sonic radar the intelligent mode of swirling writings, in a gymnasium where melody and strength go voluntarily hand in hand, for an excellent result and to make these sparks one of the most desirable works of this 2023...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

5th March 2023

https://sunnbrella.bandcamp.com/album/heartworn