EP Review ~Crayon Shades by Moderate Lovers (2025) (Self Released)

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Track: ‘Lucy’s Gardening Again’ is Moderate Lovers’ glorious sparkling paean to the pleasures of neighbourly horticulture in the sunshine. Eora/Sydney trio Moderate Lovers follow up the power pop fuzz-infused serious message of their last single 'Lost City' (reviewed by me here) with a glorious sunshine filled ray of light in the single 'Lucy's Gardening Agin'. Filled with a delicious wry sense of humour and a sparkle you need sunglasses for, this is an hyperactive effervescent joy that brings to mind The Kinks jamming in a room with Teenage Fanclub and The Lightning Seeds: all harmonies, melodies and jangling guitars. According to the band, Lucy's Gardening Again' is song which emerged after singer/songwriter Mick Wilson watched the nearly eight-hour Beatles docuseries Get Back.

Track: 'Lucy's Gardening Again' is Moderate Lovers' glorious sparkling paean to the pleasures of neighbourly horticulture in the sunshine.
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Premiere: Moderate Lovers unveil a passionate paean to things that have passed in the stunning debut ‘Lost City’. With an onslaught of fuzzy rumbling guitars that has a buzz-saw edge, the debut single from Eora/Sydney trio Moderate Lovers is a poignant reminder that change and evolution aren't always for the good. It's a debut single we are honoured to premiere, giving you a first taste of something quite special. Firmly grounded in a nineties-style velvet glove over a steel fist, with a sound redolent of fellow compatriots You Am I or, from further afield, Dinosaur Jnr or Pavement, 'Lost City' hides within its impassioned melodic delivery and wall of sound a glimmer of hope and resilience.

Premiere: Moderate Lovers unveil a passionate paean to things that have passed in the stunning debut 'Lost City'.
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