Seeker Lover Keeper // Seeker Lover Keeper

With an abundance of soft harmonious voices complimented by an assemblage of delicate instruments Seeker Lover Keeper contains the kind of songs that gets under your skin and stick in your head for weeks on end. But there’s something more than the hypnotic, sonorous melodies that it appears, at first, to be. Underlined with unease, an eerie quality hidden behind a thick wall of notes and vocals.  Like coming home to an unlocked door. From the monochrome, cardboard case and its simplistic yet still alluring cover Seeker Lover Keeper provides a refreshing change to the albums awash with colour, attempting to compress as many different themes and connotations as is physically possible. Hence, before even listening to the CD, it seems humble, honest and genuine.  A triumph for first impressions. So, within two weeks the three Australian singer songwriters Sally Seltmann, Holly Throsby and Sarah Blasko were able to create 12 songs, all with their own unique sounds, blaringly obvious, yet with a hidden foreboding that lies so subtly beneath. Personally I think that’s quite an achievement. And although by the third song, you feel as though you can essentially predict the pitch pace and plot of the next song, they carry a similarity that’s more therapeutic than it is provoking.

8/10 Hanna Huzel-Steele