Eades - Final Sirens Call

Eades have always had one foot planted in the past – their scrappy debut was laced with shades of indie sleaze and that post-Libertines fallout – but on 'Final Sirens Call', they’ve properly settled into that nostalgia, for better or worse.

Opening track 'The Other Side Of Life' sets things off on a strong note, all jangly guitars and a breezy optimism that wouldn’t feel out of place on a 00s film soundtrack. It's the kind of track that gets your hopes up. 'Backwards' follows with a more introspective tilt – Beatles-y, even – before the record takes a saxy detour into melancholy on the title-track, 'Final Sirens Call'.

Things wobble a bit from there. 'Did You Read The News?' barely leaves a trace, while 'Outside Nothing' cuts through with some emotional weight: two perspectives tangled in the fallout of toxic love, built around a slow burn that hits harder the longer it goes on.