Favourite Customer are a three-piece emo band who's new EP Deciduous puts them in good stead for this month's title of Saddest Boys™. Released on Spotify and Bandcamp last Friday (5th May), these are four songs brimming with a magnetic hurt looking to unload a very heavy weight.
The gazey intro "turn the sky over" opens up for the beautiful vulnerability of "in decline", which seems to describe the loss of a parent, fed through a leftover cut from Blackened Sky. It's tormented and exposed, with anxious ebbs and flows throughout. There's an uneasy amount of unresolved issues on the line, the kind that should have been addressed while there was still time ('his drunken idol could never falter'). In spite of the slight shakiness in the vocals, there's a very raw power to this song as it intermittently shrinks and bursts in fits of emotion.
Those pent up emotions turn into the sunlit anguish of "häxan", which tries to keep control of an internal explosion, but thankfully leads to a jiggy demon dance.
If this EP is an exorcism of sadness, then last track "inevitable...i wish it wasn't" is the reflective period in which you try and come to terms with those demons, without ever really getting rid of them for good ('I know they said all of these fears will be gone when we're dead/ but I don't know how to say I'm scared'). Timidly reaching for strength, it builds to a screaming crescendo that allows much more room to breath since the claustrophobic opening songs and creates a genuine experience of seeing into a tortured mind to the backdrop of some really catchy and occasionally heavy emo tunes.
It's an absolute banger and one of my favourites this year, give it a go below.
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