Bunny - These Days This City

As the newest member of indie heroes Mystery Jets, you can credit bassist Jack Flanagan for imbuing an old(er) band with some new tricks. It’s no coincidence that recent LP ‘Curve Of The Earth’ felt like a group renewed with a fresh energy, and now Flanagan’s brought some of it to new solo project Bunny and debut offering ‘These Days This City’.

Despite its slightly weary lyrical tone (“These days, this city is getting the better of me”), there’s something innately wide-eyed and endearing about Flanagan’s vocal delivery; rather than coming off like a navel-gazing misery guts, the combination just makes you want to give him a hug.

Musically, too, it’s a gorgeous thing, building from dusky beginnings into a sweetly simple two chord motif, doused with the kind of heart-wrenching harmonies that suggest Flanagan’s as indebted to Neil Young and the like as his more contemporary peers.

It may still be a little while until Easter, but this Bunny’s already delivered the only gift you need.