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A Silent Film - this stage is your life

From Oxford to a makeshift recording studio in Cave Creek Arizona where the This stage is your life. EP was born it seems A Silent Film have come on quite a journey, but still have a bit further to go. Now don't get me wrong this is a brilliant EP, the almost dreamy feel created by the mix of piano and synth sounds, on top of pumping guitars and poetic lyrics make it the perfect soundtrack for what's left of the (almost non-existent) British summer. Title track This stage is your life is one long extended metaphor and the most chilled out song on the EP Echoes across a bowl of tears, though slightly pretentiously titled, builds into a frankly epic sounding fist pumpingly good rock song. However there's no doubting that the stand out track on this EP is the almost haunting piano version of use Danny, Dakota and the wishing well a song which tells a modern fairytale-like story of estranged love. Though some would dismiss it as the obligatory acoustic song this stripped down version really enhances the emotion and delicacy of the lyrics and Stevenson's vocals. Though brilliant, you can't help but think A Silent Film have a lot more to give and are definitely a band we can expect bigger and more exciting things from in the future.