Delilah Holliday - Invaluable Vol. 1

By its very nature, an EP tends to be a truncated window into a vision, however even across only six tracks, ‘Invaluable EP1’ seems thin on the ground in terms of ideas. There’s a hazy, fleeting quality to Delilah Holliday’s latest, where tracks pass in and out without really going anywhere; opener ‘Steel Charmed’ is pleasantly trip-hoppy but largely one-note, while ‘Silent Streets’ repeats its hook until close. The isolated components are interesting, but it’s like listening to chunks of demos rather than fully fleshed-out final pieces. The exception comes with ‘Everything I Ever Wanted’, which maintains the dreamlike state of the EP as a whole but finds dynamics within it, building from tender beginnings to a subtle but satisfying drop at the end. But largely, it’s hard to find that much to hold onto here.