Young And Maudlin

Hospitality “Eighth Avenue”

“Eighth Avenue” starts off sounding like something that could’ve been on If You’re Feeling Sinister or The Boy With the Arab Strap, but it veers slightly off that course into something a bit noisier. Not hard or heavy, but loud and abstract – there’s a burst of guitar midway through this that makes me think of the amber cast of light on city streets in the middle of the night. That dovetails nicely with the lyrics, which are nostalgic for a night life that the singer seems to have found at least somewhat disappointing in retrospect. There’s some interesting specifics suggested in Amber Papini’s words, but this resonates because it’s so easy to fill in your own early-20s dramas, or lack thereof, particularly if you’re the type of person to be listening to this sort of twee indie pop to begin with.

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