EP Review – Weights and Measures by Greg Brady and the Anchors (Self released) (2023)
Brisbane based Greg Brady has been playing the area’s most indie scenes for three decades in various bands such as Hugbubble, Clag, Cunningham, and The Zebras.
However he has never really sounded quite as vital as he has in either his lockdown-released Little Victories album from May 2020 or this Weights and Measures EP (apparently the first of two releases he refers to as “mini albums”) that continues with such rich, invigorating lo-fi pop.
At its core, this release is an absolute triumph of the production imagination of Brady accompanied by the mastering brilliance of Royal Mint Records founder, Cameron Allen, which sees subtle shifts of lo-fi energy temper and strange omnipresent beauty.
At is most tentatively vibrant Old Tide, Hong Kong Guy and With The Beatles crumples the lo-fi production into various levels of tight, spindly twanging riffs as tiny refrains of jangled guitar-pop dance amid his Stephen Merritt and Darren Hayman quirky indie-pop vocals.
However, the very best of this release is truly special, with the spectral chime of the lead single Honour reminding this listener of the beautiful 3.A.M. Again essence of spectral monasterial and the superbly named Janglepophub (we came to a royalties agreement about the usage of our name… for nothing in this world is free !) and its ‘Brady atypical’ ramshackle instrumental fuzz.
This could well be troubling the scorers when it comes to announcing the EP’s of the year in early 2024 !!!
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