9/10
With their latest collection 'Feed Me Hope', Glasgow’s her picture step fully into their powers, delivering a concept EP that feels like a guided descent through a dreamworld carved from ancient myth and modern pain. Drawing from the symbolic undercurrents of the Greek Underworld’s five rivers, the band shapeshifts each track into an emotional phase: from numbness to rage, sorrow to clarity, and finally, something like peace.
Across its six tracks, the project embodies myth and legend. Standout offering 'Can’t Think' feels like a plunge into Lethe itself, disoriented and submerged, vocals drifting above a haze of reverb and restrained rhythm. By the time we hit 'Muscle Memory', we’re jolted awake as guitars screech against vulnerable lyrics, capturing the friction of holding onto inherited trauma while trying to move forward.
The emotional arc here is deliberate. Each song stands on its own, but together they form a cohesive spiral downward and back up again. 'Reasons I Tried' carries the ache of Styx, that river of fury and fracture, while other cuts bristle with volcanic energy, always shifting but never losing momentum.
Musically, her picture strike a rare balance of the cinematic without veering into excess. There are nods to art-pop architects like Aurora and Ethel Cain, but the band filter those influences through their own distinctly Scottish lens. The production choices feel intentional, with ghostly synths and fractured melodies echoing the lyrical themes of memory, identity, and surrender.
But what’s most striking is the honesty. 'Feed Me Hope' invites us to sit with discomfort, to mourn, rage, and eventually, breathe. In a time of endless noise, her picture have crafted a project that demands stillness, burying ambitions, planting something new in the ashes, and letting it bloom.