EP Review: In The End I Won’t Be Coming Home

French For Rabbits have done it again with their 4-track EP, In The End I Won’t Be Coming Home. This chamber dream indie pop EP is not to be missed. It’s entrancing, enhanced by experimental sound design, haunting vocals, and a wide breadth of instruments and sounds including string arrangements by Elliot Vaughan.

The EP opens with the title track, which is my personal favourite. The production is intricately layered but feels quiet and mellow. It is the perfect balance of complex accompaniment floating overtop Brooke Singer’s trademark unique vocals.

The next two songs Baring Head and Leech showcase the string arrangements from the very beginning, and the sound fits right at home with the sound of the band.

Keep is a fantastic closer to the EP, with a wonderful sonic development all throughout. The vocals in the introduction are mixed dramatically differently to the other songs in the EP which made me hold my breath in anticipation, to hear the lyrics, and to see where the song would develop.

I also really loved the lyrics of this album. While this EP is marketed as thematically being about returning to the isolated windswept coastlines, there is a real sense of personal criticism wondering about “all the promises I can’t keep” repeated on loop in Keep, having to be “left with all of my thoughts” as well as the notion of letting people down in Leech.

This is an awesome EP that really adds to the French For Rabbits discography, and I highly recommend giving it a good listen!