Album Review: Merit - The Comfort and the Confusion EP
Hailing from Phoenix, Arizona, Merit have some pretty big shoes to fill in the emo stakes. Take a short 25 minute ride out east, just the other side of Tempe, and you hit Mesa, home to a certain Jimmy Eat World. No pressure then, lads…
Not that the quartet have much to fear, after delivering an assured and confident EP in the shape of ‘The Comfort and the Confusion’. Of course, nods to Jimmy Eat World can be seen – especially on the epic ‘Take Care’, which sounds like it could fit quite snugly on ‘Clarity’ – but ultimately Merit have very much their own sound and style.
‘All These Haunting Things Part Two’ is a breezy emo-pop song, infectious and hummable with a summery chorus and an all-too-brief run time. Very much the ‘hit single’ of the EP, it warrants – and deserves – to find plenty of receptive ears.
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