Hurry - Dont Look Back (Purple & Blue Splatter)

Format: LP, Coloured
Catalogue No.: LMO101LPC1
Barcode: 810097914452
Release Date: 11 Aug 2023
Genre: Indie Pop

Standard weight, purple and blue splatter vinyl

TRACKLIST:
Side A
A1. Didn’t Have To Try
A2. Like I Loved You
A3. Beggin’ For You
A4. Parallel Haunting
A5. Something More
Side B
B1. Little Brain
B2. No Patience
B3. Around My Heart
B4. For Us To Find Love
B5. The Punchline

Hurry has grafted the best qualities of ‘90s bubblegum power pop—the pitch-perfect songwriting, the pop-rock sheen, the borderline saccharine vocal melodies—onto something far more raw and emotionally resonant. Don’t Look Back is striking in its tenderness and candor—approximately half of the lyrics on the record concern the deterioration of an 11- year relationship Scottoline was in, with the other half being a celebration of new love. The first words Scottoline sings, in opening track “Didn’t Have to Try,” is essentially a statement of theme: “And we’re back at the beginning / Never thought I’d see a face like that again / It attacks when we’re not ready / And I won’t play it safe this time.” This is pop music about actual feelings which means it’s automatically better than most pop music. It is challenging and addictive.

There is not a single moment on Don’t Look Back that isn’t completely drenched in melody and emotion. “Parallel Haunting” evokes the tuneful ache of golden age Evan Dando; “Little Brain” sounds like golden age Evan Dando and golden age Noel Gallagher. Don’t Look Back is, in a word, bittersweet, with melodies that feel like a jackhammer on your brain’s pleasure center and lyrics that feel like getting slapped in the heart.