{"id":29784,"date":"2024-10-10T07:25:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T05:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/addtowantlist.com\/?p=29784"},"modified":"2024-10-20T22:59:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T20:59:26","slug":"new-ep-the-happy-somethings-love-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addtowantlist.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/10\/new-ep-the-happy-somethings-love-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"New EP: The Happy Somethings || Love Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I wrote a song for you but this isn\u2019t it – the one I wrote for you was shit.” We’ve known for a while that British twee-pop trio The Happy Somethings<\/a> write great, quirky lyrics<\/a>, and the opening line of their new track Bed Friend<\/em> underlines that. It’s one of three tunes on their Love Songs<\/em><\/a> EP, which follows up last summer’s Caught in the Web<\/em><\/a> EP, which we didn’t include for some reason, even though it’s worth listening to (Smitten<\/em><\/a> in particular should be a big indie hit).<\/p>\n

Anyway, as always, their most recent music has something naive about it, which only adds to its charm, and yet it’s so appealing and smart that it’s another triumph. I can’t get enough of these kinds of poetic insights: “A song needs to have a hook, like a story like a book \/\/ It needs a beginning, a middle and an end \/\/ Unless we split and bring an end to it.”<\/p>\n