The Review - The Wild Romantics - She Could Tell

‘She Could Tell’ is the first recording for The Wild Romantics and they are clearly off to a kick ass start on their musical career.

We first came across them at the MusicBC Schmusic Party, basically as soon as they started playing they had the attention of the entire room. Their debut album has the same effect.

Evan Miller and Aleisha Kalina front this musical duo. Evan looks like Jack White but sounds a bit like Angus Stone. They actually sound similar to Angus and Julia Stone but aren’t siblings so they don’t have the same creepy brother/sister feel when singing their love songs. If you know what I mean.

Six song EP has moments of alternative folk and pop rock all blended together seamlessly. Each song has it’s own weight in beautiful harmonies, stellar songwriting and georgeous melodies. Really it is six songs that feels like a lot more in their variety and consistency.

This album sounds great. Not just the songs but the recording. Sonically it is recorded very well, which we sometimes don’t always hear from new local bands. The album was produced by Cory Woodward and mixed and mastered by Adam Veenendaal.

Our favourite track on the album is ‘Who Ya Foolin’ this is the only song on the album that is explicit and at first I didn’t understand why until I realized that they aren’t singing ‘fugging love song.’ This song has the most pep out of all the songs on the EP and is easily the most catchy.

‘India Lee’, the fourth track on the album, takes us to a slower place that shows of the dynamic range this band can handle. ‘India Lee’ is a lullaby love song with elements of storytelling and beautiful harmonies. This is about the folkiest the album gets and it feels really honest.

Coming out of ‘India Lee’ we are taken back to the upbeat pop sounds in “A Monday in May.’ I think the ‘blue eyes’ hooks sounds a lot like Crash Test Dummies but that might just be me.

The EP ends on ‘Your Bright Eyes Keep Me Awake.’ It’s another beautiful slow one with some lovely song writing with likes like ‘I’d rather be scared with you.’ It is a haunting conclusion to an album that leaves us wanting more.

Listen for yourself on Soundcloud.