Say what you will about the name (I haven’t figured it out either) but the Double-E seem to pack a lot of punch into a small package.

This being only 7 inches-round and 2 songs deep, make up the proverbial cock-tease that is Year of The Rabbit. Coming off the heels of 2006’s fucking fantastic When The Sea Became a Giant (but now with a backing band), Empire Empire are back with the familiar sound of this resurgence of the spatial/emotional indie we were blessed with a decade ago. The songs are about 4 minutes each, but somehow each one feels like an album in itself, the instruments carefully drifting along while the vocals shared by Keith and Cathy tip-toe their way through the track. The songs aren’t so much about the music or the lyrics, their voices are used as instruments themselves; complimenting rather than overpowering. It’s more of a “hey, lets make beautiful music” rather than “hey, I have something to say”.

I don’t even know what the best part about EE is – everything just fits. Year of the Rabbit is just a puzzle piece to what the band represents and the tiny, spinning disc just crackles with honesty and perhaps it can ignite the fuse to resurgence into introspective, methodical indie-rock.

Their full length is due later on in the year on Count Your Lucky Stars. Take the love of your life.

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