JEPH – The ‘Hey Baby/Harry’ A/A Single.
JEPH – Isle Of Wight, England, United Kingdom.
The Isle Of Wight. My place of origin and a place that has seen waves upon waves of music rather than just sea-power eroding it away. Emo, Metalcore, Punk, Oi!, Hardcore, singer-songwriters Prog, – the IOW has seen it all with some lasting and others not.
Indie music however has very much been a part of the Island’s music scenes near constantly for the past two decades with a steady stream band’s populating the small but tightly-knit live music scene. Which is where JEPH come in.
Pronounced “JEFF”, the band are very much apart of a UK underground Indie scene that since the genre’s revival and re-explosion in the early-to-mid 2000’s has settled into itself and is producing some real quality and indeed now-varied sounds, which again, brings to JEPH and their latest double A-side single.
‘Hey Baby’ is misleadingly heavy and very much traditional in it’s down tempo and playful Indie Rock intro that leads into a verse comprised of quintessentially southern-English accented vocals. Match this with crystal-clear Pop-led vocal harmonies and Surf Rock strings oddly but not unwelcomely reminiscent of US up-beat Punks FIDLAR or Canadians PUP and you have an Indie Rock track doing a touch of outside-the-box flirting.
‘Harry’ on the other begins a little less brashly while still keeping the now at-home Indie-Surf guitar tone before another subtle nod towards Punk with a cheeky ‘1,2,3,4!’, a nod which only increases as the track persists. JEPH are an Indie band and embody such but they clearly aren’t afraid of the genres distant, distant roots and it’s nothing if it’s not refreshing.
‘Harry’ is the story of sudden realisation that you may well not want to be seeing the same face everyday and is very well written in it’s straight to the point tale. Now as much as this is never a fun situation ‘Harry’ is a witty and fun track that is insanely quotable and the stronger of two strong numbers. – ‘And don’t fix what is broken – ’cause it’s why I broke it’.
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