Mischief loving Liverpudlian band Hannah’s Little Sister are releasing their debut EP, EP.mp3, this Friday November 20 via Heist or Hit. With a couple of scrappy singles out already out in the world, they give us a taste of their more earnest side with the heart-wrenching stormer “Anywhere”. Singer Meg Grooters lets us into the inspiration for the track, saying:
“I wrote this song just before I took a year out from uni, it was a weird time for me where I was discovering who I was, with my self-esteem at its lowest. I was lonely, I didn’t feel like I was enough for my friends, and I felt like I had to be someone else, and act a certain way to be accepted by them.
“But it was also a time where I was in a really loving relationship, and in contrast to the situation with my peers I was just happy to be with that person, and live my life with them comfortably, wanting them around always. This was the good side of caring I hadn’t really experienced before. I guess that sort of created two meanings, because adoring people can be a toxic thing or it can be a really fun and even fulfilling thing. But, if you’re desperate to fit in or be liked and are wanting someone for the wrong reasons, it’s easy to slip into moulding yourself to do so.”
With songs like the silly and shouty “Bin Mouth” in their arsenal, we wouldn’t necessarily expect Hannah’s Little Sister to be able to be so piercingly earnest, but “Anywhere” is an emotionally cathartic triumph that doesn’t lose any of the boisterousness that makes them so damn lovable. They start out quiet and contemplative on “Anywhere”, Grooters’ delicate falsetto sweetly offering “you can take me anywhere” like a timid soul lost in the loud world. But then, Hannah’s Little Sister erupt into a thunderous anthem, laughing themselves silly over trivial things like TV shows and dumb jokes – or is it an unhealthy attempt to try to ‘fit in’? Throughout “Anywhere”, they vacillate between a delicate groove with wiggling guitars and intelligently ticking percussion, and explosive surf rock mayhem – a visceral sonic portrayal of the ups and downs of emotion that come with being a human being, which remains steadfastly FUN despite the weight of the topic.
Hannah’s Little Sister’s EP.mp3 is out this Friday, November 20, via Heist or Hit. Follow them on Bandcamp, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
