Anthemic pop rock.
Shush have a really marketable sound and the potential to be huge; they deal in rock with poppy melodies and easy on the ear female vocals mixed with darker minor key changes reminiscent of Queens of the Stone Age and some pretty heavy sounding guitars.
The melodies here are all more than averagely catchy and anthemic, soaring to crescendos in all the right places, but although all five tunes on the EP are well executed the songs ultimately fail to excite. Mainly this is because it’s a case of wanting to hear something new and interesting but realising you’ve heard a lot of the riffs and chord changes before somewhere else.
All the tracks follow the same formula of guitar solos, major/minor key changes and poppy melodies, some of which are really good, especially the fourth track ‘Pretty Thing’ and even though I felt like I should really love it, it left me empty, as if something vital was missing - for me at least it wasn’t raw and emotional enough and sometimes sounded like pop rock by the numbers.