Reviews / / 10 · 12 · 2020
Lanterns On The Lake are really spoiling us with new music this week. With their Mercury Award- nominated last album Spook The Herd only emerging at the start of the year, the Newcastle group provide fans with an early Christmas present in the form of a five- song EP.
A short, but blissful EP, The Realist demonstrates that they know how to craft a beautiful violin lead ballad; at times, though, it struggles to stand on its own, with the songs drifting into one another.
All tracks on the EP follow a similar formula. Start slow and solemn, then enter frontwoman Hazel Wilde for her ever-loudening, warm and syrupy sweet vocals, detailing her inner turmoil. Her gorgeous Geordie tone sounds particularly astounding at the end of the title track The Realist while she sings âevery moth needs a flameâ.