Album Review: Huntly - Feel Better Or Stop Trying

With their mellow fusion of electro, R&B, soul and pop, Melbourne trio Huntly have become live music mainstays in recent years — and it turns out they give pretty good headphone too.

Their debut EP is gloriously claustrophobic, analog and digital sounds colliding in the close, dark spaces around Elspeth Scrine's plaintive and brutally honest vocals. Sunday Sheets is sex-laden pop shot through with feverish electro weirdness; Singing Surts is dense with Gregorian chant-like droning; Heavy Sometimes unspools dangerously, like a spiderweb crack through glass. At only six tracks, the EP is the aural equivalent to erotic asphyxiation; it leaves you gasping for air and aching for more.