Yearlings

For their second long-player Sydney-based quintet Dead Letter Chorus have put a year in the life to acetate. The result, suitably-named Yearlings, is a raw, honest and complete album of challenging indie-pop. A song cycle detailing the highs and lows of a love affair, Yearlings explores familiar territory with profound insight. New love, contentment, rot, ruin, hope and all of their satellite emotions delicately weave and wind throughout this collection of sublime vignettes.

Yearlings' universal subject matter confers it with an easy relatability and allows the album's many moments of poignancy to blaze effortlessly between the grooves. Musically complex yet approachable, Yearlings is as intricately-honed as it is compelling. Sweeping, cohesive and eloquent, Yearlings' completes the picture that singles Covered By Snow, Run Wild and Yellow House slyly hinted at but saved as a surprise.