Album Review: Spring Offensive - Pull Us Apart

Spring Offensive’s debut mini album ‘Pull Us Apart’ is so much more than just another indie band skirting around the edges of a scene that’s heard it all before. There’s a real purpose about them as musicians and song writers, not merely forming for the sake of writing within a trend, this 5-piece has a story to tell, and they won’t be hard pressed to find the listeners to tell it to.

Opening track ‘I Found Myself Smiling’ begins with almost whispers above delicate acoustic guitar plucks, like the majority of songs on this 7 track CD it builds, slowly introducing more instruments and layers which never fail to deliver great crescendos, well placed and somewhat unpredictable. Single ‘Every Coin’ is a tale of a man forced to consume the contents of his wallet, however odd lyrically you can’t help but get caught up in the narrative. It dips and dives as each verse surges towards a chorus that strips back the sound, the thumping drums disappear and leave a delicate strum of guitar over slightly whispered vocals, a stroke of pure brilliance in mature and intelligent song writing.