Single Review: Blue Skies

The slim-line edition of Mecuzine – brothers Joseph and Tony Johns – seems to have gained more than it might have seemingly lost.

Blues Skies is the second single released since five became two and it’s another brooding, sonic masterpiece with an but almost tragically self-effacing punch line: “She wanted him to stay/Instead she got me/What an unlucky break”.

The arrangements are tautly woven over a lovely rolling bass line and fuzzy electric guitar and then understated piano and acoustic guitar before the vocal drapes the narrative in a blanket of emotional tension and mystery.

And when Blue Skies appears to have run its course, the sonics really start to deep etch with a screechingly short but effective guitar solo and a stunning piano jam that’s almost buried in the mix but carries the weight of a “blue, blue sky falling, wash away my world”.

Epic.