FROM THE HEART

In case its Valentine’s Day release didn’t make it obvious enough, the title of Jack River’s new record should let you know enough about its subject matter. The seven-track Stranger Heart EP is another release jam-packed with ooey, gooey love songs that’ll make you feel like you’re 15 and falling head over heels for that one girl in your English class all over again. Except this time, you won’t be savagely rejected and embarrassed in front of all your mates, and Holly Rankin is upping the stakes by adding a piquant dose of peculiarity to the mix.

Following on from the bright and buoyant debut LP – a proper sequel to which is already on the cards – Rankin has ditched the bubblegum sweetness, instead toying with seven uniquely potent and provoking reappropriations of the concept of love.