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THE JAPANESE HOUSE LETTER BY THE WATER

Amber Bain, the talented youngster who’s no more Japanese than she is a house, drops the second track from her forthcoming EP. The follow up to title track Clean fizzes with the same intoxicating melancholy that's cemented her as one of our favourite acts of 2015. But what sets out as finger-light fretwork soon dives into Tina Turner’s dressing up box, emerging triumphant with a pair of shoulder pads and a set of fist-clenching power chords. Amber once described her own music as ‘a sad little puppy listening to Beyonce to cheer itself up’. Well, we're not sad, we aren't little and we don’t pee on the carpet, but Letter By The Water is sure making us smile. - JS

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