Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 91/2/10
There are times in life when you really feel honoured…beyond that, grateful, to have heard a set of songs by a band or an artist in which the long nights caress the furrowed brow and handles the inner music beast with the soft click of the finger. That ambient caress is never far away when it comes to ME and Deboe, yet they also manage to tune you into a different direction in life, the mere taste of a song can cause the heart to gain momentum, give it the energy to face a new dawn and ultimately make you relieved that music chose to infiltrate your soul.
Such is the resonance that Sarah Deboe and Mercy Elise bring to their new E.P., Here They Come, that like many talented women before them, they catch the ear for being different, for being true to their core belief and the mark of any great band that when you place the album on, close your baby blue eyes and let the dark swallow you, you can see them as clear as day infront of you and you can imagine every pluck of the guitar and every expression on their face, this is true greatness.
To have Here They Come in your collection, not just stuck upon your latest phone ready at a moment’s notice to be deleted, but actually as a physical entity standing proudly ready to be handled with care in your collection is the epitome of taste. The fine balance between grace and pressure, the thrill of the chase from a guitar played as if its heart has been released from unlawful incarceration and is on a mission to spread the word of wild untamed freedom, the realisation that the songs on the E.P., Here They Come, Forward, Ten Toes and Glass Face are as scintillating as you could ask to hear and as lively as the initial throes of revolution, it is what your ears have been waiting for and what your music system had been dying for.
For a duo, Me and Deboe are as vital as Simon and Garfunkel, as relevant as breathing and as Here They Come explains, this is two women playing as if the world is their oyster, their plaything but enthusiastic and eager to share it with everyone. A great E.P.!
Ian D. Hall