Hazel English - Just Give In / Never Going Home (Ltd. Coloured Vinyl)

LP comes in pastel pink and pastel blue vinyl.For every 10,000 beach-pop bands who mumble their words and dodge purpose there's one Hazel English DIY.Hazel English is a 25-year-old Oakland-based artist who makes beautifully blurry indie-pop music powered by transcendent melodies and caked in layers of Californian sunshine and redolent reverb.She finds herself something of a scene queen amidst the burgeoning jangling happenings of the Bay Area, which count the likes of her producer Jackson Philips aka Day Wave amongst it ranks, as well as kindred spirits like Craft Spells and Hot Flash Heat Wave, to name but a few. Despite the fun being had locally, Hazel describes her music as, Transportive. It makes you feel like you're in a different place.A very literal example is the title track, which charters the bittersweet abandon of her runaway journey from her native Australia to her new adopted home in a near-cinematic narrative. She's drawn comparisons to everyone from Alvvays and Pains Of Being Pure At Heart to touring partners Ride, while her soaring, hypnotic, vocal arrangements have been likened to everyone from Grimes to Diiv.