Album Review: Dear Seattle - Dear Seattle

Looking for something to tide you over between Violent Soho and The Smith Street Band's new albums? Dear Seattle's self-titled EP should quell your needs.

There's heavier influences in places, and a touch of The Getaway Plan-esque vocals in songs like Cut You Deep and Concrete. Closer Afterthought will stick with you, with its catchy opening riff and quiet start. It's not long until it builds and hits you with lines like "When have we ever been known to be the hopeful anyway?"

Dear Seattle is strong, self-reflective and will surely see the band rise to the top of the Aussie rock scene pretty quickly. Get on board, because give it five years and you'll want to be saying you were with them from the start.