Skipping Girl Vinegar - ‘Sift the Noise’

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There’s an irrepressible positivity to Skipping Girl Vinegar and their debut record Sift the Noise that makes them instantly appealing. I mean, the emo parade have the monopoly on depression in music, so why not explore other emotional avenues? And if anyone has a reason to be upset, it’s their chief songwriter Mark Lang, who lost family members during the four-year making of his band’s debut. Yet it’s a loss that doesn’t phase him, because throughout Sift the Noise he consistently looks through the negatives to discover the positives. There’s a lesson in there, I reckon…

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