Around 1996, Pepe Murgadas (bass vocals), Roque Esteban (drums, percussion, vocals) and Coke Belda (guitars, vocals) formed a band, recorded several demos, and had a great time playing around Valencia, Spain, and the surrounding areas. Last Summer the band got together for a party and decided to record six songs from those demos again. They called themselves Dislexia and the shared tracks formed the EP `Snowball`.
This extended play opens with `Love Is Blind` with its harmonic vocals, a heartening melodic track with a cracking guitar solo in the latter section. A commentary possibly on the tendency of people in love to overlook their partner’s flaws, especially in the early stages of infatuation. The phrase itself originated in Geoffrey Chaucer’s 1401 novel The Merchant’s Tale. We enjoy a brief nighty eight seconds of aural pleasure in `At Least` but it has a lot to say in a short period of time as it races along sharing a kind of strange history lesson.
`You Were The Water` is a trippy psychedelic rock out with “you were the water for my sins” repeated throughout. A religious metaphor perhaps?? The idea that sins can be cleansed with water is a concept that appears in the Bible and is based on the idea that water can wash away physical impurities. For me there was a dreamy introspective Beatles vibe to `Sleeping All the Days`.
`Mister` has a driving beat with gentle vocal harmonies that seems to be about allowing someone close their own space but knowing they`ll come back to you eventually. We close out with `The God I Hate` a more “in your face” rock offering, not aggressive but forceful and retaining that melodic sensibility.
I have to say this twenty-minute submission brought a little bright sunshine and a warm glow into what was a cold a bleak Winter’s evening.
If you like bands such as Jellyfish and Mr Big then Dislexia are the band for you.
Rating 8.5/10
