EP Review: Sisters - Bite

Bite, the debut EP from Liverpool based Sisters, is weird. It is for the people who use old sweet wrappers as bookmarks, and bunch handwritten notes at the bottom of their bag, and lose their black lipstick amongst those notes. 

These people need a soundtrack, and that is exactly what Bite is. It is frantic in places, with ‘I can’t see’ cantering towards spiraling thoughts and late nights, and ‘Sweetness of things’ tumbling into a flurry of panicked drums. 

It is gothic in others, curated for evening walks spent trying not to trip over long skirts and overgrown paths. ‘Weird angel’s pining vocals drip thickly over dusty cymbals with a Wednesday meets Deftones feel. 

The title track ‘Bite’ is a combination of these, with an eerie tension that seeps out of the slower, almost seductive guitar lines. It dances like a duel, the different melodies circling each other, dangerously close to colliding, yet never quite touching. 

The EP is for dancing, for overthinking, for screaming and for loving. It is smudged with black lipstick and crumpled from being at the bottom of a bag, and is utterly weird.