My Hi-Fi Sister carry all the scars of an English, small-town up-bringing where the nearest you're gonna get to 'out' is down the road to the chicken factory.

The opener and title track is a loose combination of the vocals of Tim from Ash and the accompaniment of the Foo Fighter's 'Everlong. This is in no way an insult to this band. In fact, the charmingly deadpan voice of Mike Smith conveys a far deeper understanding of his words than the two throwaway comparisons do with their own material. Haunting moans and trail-off monotone actually become the music rather than settling over the top as a necessary evil, so many band's downfall. The subtle shifts and chord progressions of the guitars add an element of the hopeful hopeless, a feeling near impossible to capture with a six-string instrument. The only band that springs to mind who have achieved such a thing as well as My Hi-Fi Sister are Bury St Edmund's Miss Black America.

'You Might As Well' reminds us of a forgotten era when conviction didn't have to be signalled by heaviness and raw emotion was expressed in other ways, not just screaming. The droning intro is in no way sonically heavy, yet, much like the entire EP, carries a darkness that can only emerge from small-town syndrome. The lingering line "If I lose my mind, kill me" is given unnerving weight when 'You Might As Well' creeps into off-kilter confusion, a short, sharp and scary detour into the true driving force of the band.

'Find The Time' sees the band unpredictably shifting pace and tone, the title suggesting that there is humour amidst the haunting. However hard you try, it is impossible to detect any hint of cliché in this, and indeed any of the songs found on here. My Hi-Fi Sister are clearly in a musical realm of their very own, one they understand perfectly.

Closer 'By The Sea' is their finest moment. They avoid the use of distortion (very refreshing), instead opting for a clean and strangely warm sound. A wise decision because the mood and sonic atmosphere instantly attained through distortion is already ingrained in their collective souls. The dark and potentially dangerous, the melancholic yet menacing is a pink ribbon scar carved into all four glimpses of a band who don't want it, they need it.