Jekyll/Hyde (W4E 017), by Your Friend

Jekyll/Hyde (W4E 017)

by Your Friend

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Brant Kassel so god damn good Favorite track: Tame One.

P M Griffiths It has to be Jeckyll,Hyde for me. Favorite track: Jeckyll/Hyde.

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	1.	Bangs 03:49
	2.	Peach 04:23
	3.	Pallet 04:43
	4.	Tame One 04:54
	5.	Jeckyll/Hyde 03:39
	6.	Expectation/Reality 06:20

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Review by James Christopher Monger FROM www.allmusic.com

The debut EP from Lawrence, Kansas' Taryn Blake Miller, better known by her affable alias Your Friend, offers up a shadowy mix of spectral, lo-fi dream pop and Spector-ish, guitar-driven indie rock that falls somewhere in between the echo chamber and the open road. "Bangs" sets the tone with its languid, two-chord build that hints at Beach House by way of Sharon Van Etten, and then explodes into the kind of percussive and anthemic, midnight house-show theatrics that bring to mind Bon Iver mastermind Justin Vernon's Volcano Choir project. The rest of the collection follows suit, with highlights arriving via the bucolic title track and the cavernous "Tame One," but the majority of the six-song set sounds like it's happening a room or two away, resulting in the same sense one gets when daydreaming through a particularly ephemeral section of a book and having to go back a page or two to try piecing together the narrative. Miller's voice tiptoes around extremes, sometimes bold and sometimes fragile, suggesting that a better indication of her prowess would be sussed out via a sweaty, hometown show packed with enthralled brethren, but the aptly titled Jekyll/Hyde provides enough spark to keep the home fires burning, thanks in part to co-producer and Hospital Ships frontman Jordan Geiger's willingness to go big in all of the right places.

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released May 31, 2014

200 Tape Run, 2nd Edition, Includes Digital Download
First Edition on 808newyork.com
Watch TAME ONE - official video at youtu.be/zad8wq4afr8
Thank you www.facebook.com/yourfriendtaryn and www.dominorecordco.us for our act of collective imagining