Melbourne’s Alexis Hall is back with her The Motifs solo recording project that has not lost any of its ability to make you clasp at every word to try and decipher meaning from a Girl on Bus-style understated vocal delivery that oozes anxious introspection.
Initially, I’m the One You Love offers a sense of re-engineered Jeanines in the tender sub-two-minute vignettes of All About, Mirrors, and Just An Echo. Here, indie-pop persuasions tickle your rhythm bones in the same sweet indie-pop way as their New York counterparts do, before ultimately deconstructing such a sound by removing any sense of tempo or vocal exuberance. Essentially, it’s the most perfectly crystal clear ‘twee’ you could possibly imagine.
Whilst never being the typical radio fodder of even the most enlightened indie radio station, Take Mine, Little Things, How Will We Turn Out, and In a Moment are undoubtedly The Motifs at their most ‘nearly accessible, with a juxtaposition of The Laundries neo-acoustics and almost yacht yock sophistication sidling with melodic content through their core.
In complete contrast, The Races and Every Way give a mid-album double salvo that is packed with the lo-fi, melancholic jangly introspection of recent acts such as Cindy or Harper, displaying a similar ability to create absolute beauty out of crushed emotionality.
Fluttering, fragile twee-pop has never been as essential as it is in the hands of this act.
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