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The song that revels in its ability to dig away into the emotions of happiness and the beginnings of melancholy is to be lauded and acknowledged. It is the sense of art imitating the mind, the sense of imposter syndrome that inflicts its tell-tale signs of destructive patterns and stating that nobody deserves to feel joy, when in actual fact the smile on somebody’s face should be the most paramount of expressions to behold.
To capture this heightened emotion is not easy, too much sentiment in either direction can lead the song or piece of art into the territory of mawkishness or the realm of over produced jubilation, neither one holding the sense of exacting truth to which such thoughts should pursue.
For Liverpool’s Police Car Collective, the sense of wonder is dawning upon those that have found the duo in the last few months, the smile etched of having found another young set of music makers with guile and rapture riding through their veins, and the word is spreading, and with good reason. In their third single to be released, I Guess It’s Over Now, the pair have attained the moment in which wit and brevity are interwoven in their D.N.A. and the result is a song that lifts the spirits but also makes the heart ache for understanding and longing.
With the release of their impending debut E.P. only a few weeks away, the message behind this third single is one of youthful gravitas, of finding the line between pleasure and desolation and weaving a song that suggests to the senses that they are in for a dramatic three-minute ride. Better to belt up now and grab hold of something tight because the Police Car Collective have the sound to come rigidly fixed on their radar.
Police Car Collective release their new single, I Guess It’s Over Now, on July 24th.
Ian D. Hall