MERE WOMEN - Big Skies LP twee European rain and battering sea

European rain and battering sea storms

Emerging out of a two-day studio session at Camden Sound in North West London during a sickly December of 1978

’80s-leaning production

charting Indie Pop’s development from the post punk era and the dominance of Scottish bands through to its genre-defining C86 period and onto the end of the decade

Neil Diamond

MERE WOMEN - Big Skies LP twee European rain and battering seaEvery element of Mere Womens distinct, dooming sound is amplified on their third album, Big Skies. Looming over the flickering, guitar grind, the bands rhythmic pulse mathy precision, yet rarely trapped in predictable loops palpitates with greater prominence; all anxious, always relentless. The glooming synths that encase them, similarly, are larger than ever, forever all encompassing even when detached from their companion, as with the instrumental