= 4 stars

One Too Many Hearts, from the Bird and the Bee, is another EP with one killer track, two so-so ones, and a polite misfire. That’s still pretty darned good as far as I’m concerned. The best track is Birthday with an eighties groove featuring a perfect contrast between the robotic drums of the verse and pulsing guitars of the chorus. It’s hook city, from the “tick tock” intro to the vocal melody, reminding me of Coldplay, Wilson Phillips, Dido simultaneously.

Last Day of Our Love and Come As You Were are slightly less successful, the former combining baroque conventions with the Beatles and a Shakespearean sonnet romantic tragedy. The chorus of Come As You Were reminds me of XTC’s Humble Daisy. The weakest track is the cover Tonight You Belong To Me which shows less polished effort and sounds a bit tossed off, despite exploring the girl-group sound of My Fair Lady from their debut album.

It seems the previous EP Please Clap Your Hands had a theme of cute beats and One Two Many Hearts deals loosely with matters of the heart.

All in all, a great set of four songs. Birthday is the keeper, which will tide me over to whenever their next full-length album is released. Please, don’t be too long!

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