โFeed Me Hopeโ by Her Picture undergoes emotional rebirth, incorporating myth and modernity into a searing alt-rock concept record that lives up to, and even surpasses, the anticipation. The Glasgow-based trioโs six-track EP, released June 20, draws on the Greek myth of the Five Rivers of the Underworld, but donโt expect a dusty retelling. Instead, theyโve forged something visceral, cinematic, and devastatingly human โ a musical journey that turns ancient allegory into personal liberation.
Opening track โStyxโs Curseโ surprises us with a ghostly drone over which layered, chant-like vocals come, as if theyโre coming from the deepest part of a dream, or perhaps a memory. Itโs not a song so much as an invocation, a portal into the underworld of the self. By โFear Like a Father,โ the band plunges into more nightmarish territory, layering eerie synths with a distorted, near-demonic voice that sounds like itโs crawling out of static. Itโs unnerving, but spellbinding โ a sonic metaphor for confronting inherited pain.
โMuscle Memoryโ balances the haunting with the beautiful. The distorted guitar growls low and slow, while delicate piano chords trace the edges of grief. Anny Tahaneyโs voice glides between fragility and power as her feathery falsetto in the chorus cuts through the flames with elegance. โReasons I Triedโ is a piano-led ballad that begins like a sob and ends like an anguished soar. The vulnerability in Tahaneyโs delivery is chilling, her breath catching between words like sheโs holding back everything and nothing at once. She sings, โThis time is every time and every time feels like the first time.โ
Altogether, โFeed Me Hopeโ touches us with unflinching intimacy. Listen to it on Spotify.
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Photo credits: Marilena Vlachopoulou
Review by: Naomi Joan