Leggy – ‘Nice Try’ EP

Leggy – Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. 

Leggy drink peach champagne and read Greek mythology in Cincinnati. Or at least this is what I’ve learnt from the band’s new EP Nice Try.

In the world of Leggy, kisses are sweet like a peach and good girls don’t grow on trees. I want to call their music Peach-Pop. I’ll admit, it’d be better if they were from the peach state and not the swing state, but their music CAN be swing skated to. If this guy (Click here), can roller-skate to Kate Bush, anything is possible.

Some bands go swimming in the deep end of reverb, and clearly Leggy were born at the bottom of the deep end. The reverb is so much that you meld with it. It’s cool though; there’s a distant nuclear family 50’s american peach cobbler romance to it.

‘Grrrls Like Us’ is super catchy and sweet like drinking ‘…cherries in my Sprite’. ‘Adonis’ is as real and honest as Paris Geller, an ode to the Adonis Belt (Apollo’s belt/the ‘V’ – see Zac Efron). ”Cause your slang’s got the rhythm of a sonnet/and the stars they are swimming past like comets’. A social commentary on how your 20’s ‘aren’t for playing safe’ , as long as you’ve got a ‘20 in your pocket and mischief in your eyes’, you’re sorted.

‘HHS’ is like if The Coathangers weren’t left out in the rain to be the coolest rusty tools in the shed but instead, were dressed up in the warm honey of Ohio musical independence, flirting with princes and kings and listening to melodic birds coo in flat sunsets.

‘July’ makes summer seem an age away (almost there), but the rolling percussion backing up ‘like my bare thighs in July? Where did your girlfriend go?’, places the cherry on top of Leggy’s cooling swagger.

‘Nice Try’ is nice like Vanilla Ice Cream (with some Kirsch), Apple Pie (with gold leaf Vanilla Kirsch Ice Cream), and Romeo and Juliet… if Shakespeare had Punk-Rock dreams.

Go ahead and have taste on SoundCloud then if it’s to your liking, import your new favourite flavour of pop-tart over on bandcamp and keep track of the three-piece on Facebook and Twitter.

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