Album Review: Oh Pep - Stadium Cake

Stadium Cake is the first full-length record by Oh Pep! — the Melbourne duo Olivia Hally and Pepita Emmerichs — and judging by its quality there'll be plenty more where this came from.

It's disappointing that they've simply been branded as a 'folk/pop' duo, although given their eclectic, yet unashamedly accessible — and sometimes saccharine — sound, it's somewhat understandable. Angus & Julia Stone, this ain't. Textured layers of considered percussion and string sections bounce around beneath Hally's vocal line, and although at times the results can weigh a listener down, the contagious, effervescent nature of Oh Pep!'s sound never allows you to fully go under.