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.

'If I Only Knew Then' leans into that indie club vibe, landing somewhere between The Kooks and a lost MySpace banger. 'Madness Pride And Poetry' aims for something grander but doesn’t quite stick the landing, while there’s a touch of The Cribs' laidback swagger about penultimate track 'This Fleeting Wind'.

'Final Sirens Call' isn’t bad. It’s a pleasant, polished listen, rooted in a very specific kind of indie that still works in certain lights. But it’s a record that spends too much time looking back and not enough pushing forward.