The Good Natured - Your Body Is A Machine

Arriving in a lavish handmade CD wallet, the Good Natured is certainly an interesting prospect above anything else. To her credit, this second EP from 18-year-old Sarah McIntosh is an effective piece of work that sounds like the efforts of someone a good few years beyond her age.

Armed with her keyboard, the four tracks here cover the breadth of lady-pop we find currently gracing mainstream radio. Think a stripped down version of Ladyhawke having a keyboard mash-up session with Kate Nash and you’ll get the overall gist of the Good Nature’s sound. Captivating opener, ‘I Pray’ wouldn’t sound too out of place as a Ladyhawke b-side, its electro-influenced beats providing a solid backbone to the effortlessly catchy pop McIntosh deals out.

Things take a darker turn with the title track ‘Your Body Is A Machine’. The most interesting track of the four, if she chooses to continue along this trajectory we may well be raising a few eyebrows with approval in the future. It’s low key beats suggest some genuine potential, which hasn’t been ignored judging by the amount of interest her first EP ‘Warriors’, garnered by various people at the BBC.

Sadly, the remaining two tracks are weaker affairs that drift a little too close to typically clichéd muses on daily life and relationships, but at her tender age, there’s enough here to suggest that whatever McIntosh releases next will at the very least be worth giving a good listening to.