The Pierces: You’ll Be Mine EP
If you hadn’t seen or heard of The Pierces before, slipping this EP in your CD player might have you thinking The Corrs were making a comeback.
The Pierces are two very beautiful and very talented sisters who were raised in Alabama and trained to become professional ballet dancers, before turning their attention to music. After several false starts in the industry, they were finally discovered by Guy Berryman of Coldplay, and this EP is a little teaser before the release of their album You & I in May.
Starting with title track You’ll Be Mine, the first thing you hear is a hippie rhythm underlined by those brilliant bead shakers you used to fight over in school music lessons. The girls then come in with beautiful summery harmonies, giving the track a very relaxing and chilled out tone. Even when the guitar and heavier beats enter the song still keeps an air of serenity in the build up.
The second song is Piece of You, and the vocals are accompanied by a very understated piano line, before the introduction of guitars. Of the three tracks this really does have a Coldplay edge to it – for some reason you can really visualise Chris Martin’s vocals, but that’s not to say that The Pierces don’t sing it beautifully themselves.
Me and him is the last unique song (as track four is an acoustic rendition of You’ll Be Mine). Me and Him also makes use of opening with a single instrument accompanying the vocals, this time the instrument being guitar. This one has a very Irish/country style sense to it, whilst also carrying some of the girl’s free-spirited hippy roots. Although the lyrics come across as somewhat pessimistic, it’s not in such a way that it becomes heavy and depressing to listen too.
This style of music really isn’t something I would usually listen to, and if I’m being entirely honest I don’t think it’s likely I’ll be putting this on repeat on my iPod, but it is definitely something I would listen to again, particularly if I was looking for some chilled out music for some “me time”. It’ll be interesting to see what the girls have in store for the album due May 23rd.
