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	EP 'Open up...listen now' Review	227 Tage her
	Open Up…Listen Now ep Shimmer Sometimes there’s nothing nicer in life than severe mood swings. Not the kind that lead high-ranking businessmen to burst into tears in the middle of a board meeting and go on about how they never take the kids bowling. No, that’s more of a breakdown. Nice mood swings happen in songs like the ones here from Glasgow’s Shimmer. Where slick, stylish and slightly detached grooves suddenly go all passionate in the manliest way possible. The sextet have a habit of transmuting from Red Hot Chili Peppers to Van Morrison quicker than you can say Anthony Kiedis’s thong. Opener “Fight For Nothin’” is a classic case in point. The slinky, jazz-inflected guitar saunters in under a moodily soulful falsetto from frontman Gary Lynass. It makes for seductive mix that’s mercifully the right side of Maroon 5, right before we’re spanked into the midst of a crunching guitar bridge. Like suddenly hitting a really walnut-heavy bit of a Cornetto. Elsewhere, though, things burn a bit slower. “Divine Control” builds on skittering piano and lush Crowded House harmonies with layer after layer of glowing production. Following that, “Heavens Fallen” is a more naked affair, ramping up the intensity in a highly confessional King Creosote kind of way. It all gets a bit spiky on “Shadows” though. There’s plenty of attitude here as things get as surly and restless as a sleep-deprived cat. These are all well-crafted songs, skilfully played. But the best moment on this ep comes when Shimmer let themselves go that little bit more. On “Last Fence,” Gary unleashes his most impassioned, desperate vocal as the warm acoustic guitar fuzz is smothered by howling electric licks from lead axer Craig McFadyen. The rhythms rise and fall like panic attack breathing and everything eventually get caught up in a dervish of wailing guitars and swirling beats. Proof that great pop music is never really on an even keel. Let it out, chaps. There, now doesn’t that feel better? by Overplay
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