EP Review – Sleeping With Weird People by Hause Plants (2022) (Spirit Goth Records)
Hause Plants are a Portuguese foursome who appear to have moved to both their spiritual jangle-pop home of Brooklynm New York and for this, their second EP, a Spirit Goth Records label that have long since been the finest purveyors of ‘their kind of jangle-gaze aesthetic’…
…For this Sleeping With Weird People EP continues the superb form of their Film For Color Photos EP (released on the BIRTHDIY label in May 2021) with a double nuanced offering of jangle-gaze.
Initially the release shows the acts’ aplomb with the dulcet vibe of jangly post-punk. Here, Wherever You Are and Fun at Random Places take the dank atmospheres of early era The Cure and augment such an aesthetic with slight, drifting reverb and the crisp jangled riffs of a post-punk yesteryear, typified by A Certain Ratio. The Post-punk thematic continues in Stranger Anywhere as the chunky basslines of the APB sound caress the sultry jangle gaze that is so appealing in the recent Ghost Mail releases.
The release truly excels in Small Talk and Fake Friends. These tracks reduce the reverb a certain extent, which enables the crisp, more lucid, The BV’s style, jangled riffs to claim dominance and offer almost danceable jangle-gaze and the slightest of surf rock inflections.
This is a truly special EP that would grace any jangle-pop / jangle-gaze fans collection. Only available as a digital release, grab yourself a copy here.
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