A superb blend of intrigue-creating pop guitar hooks, sensitive, witty lyrics, and a subtle, cool posture, this EP by the Hepburns (whose next album will be a single for Siesta Records) is never half as long-winded as this sentence. Laconic yet emotional, these are three minute ditties with a somewhat 50's delivery but with a type of smoothness unknown in those days...

The band's history is far more esoteric and inaccessible than the music. According to the label, "The Hepburns appeared briefly at the end of the 1980s to release a 12" and LP on Cherry Red during the happy era of Richard Preston, Mike Alway and El Records. And promptly disappeared into the Welsh twilight for 10 years"

"The Hepburns sound of today may be somewhat gentler than that of 1988, but their original cinematic flair is as strong as ever. In fact, we wouldn't have been far off in claiming that the nine new tracks (six songs and three instrumentals) crammed into this mini-album were installment number three in Radio Khartoum's 18fps soundtrack series. A soundtrack for a film set in a village of dilapidated buildings, obsolete soda pop machines, and gardens haunted with the ghosts of boxers, Disney's pirates, Nick Drake, and Jackie Onassis."

Once again Radio Khartoum has put together a wonderful collection of scene stealing songs, complete in priceless 3" packaging. Fans of the Smiths, Nick Drake, etc, you know who you are, and you want this record-- surely the best 7 dollars you will spend until 2001.

USOUNDS presents as exclusive mp3s:

Jet Age International
A mostly instrumental track featuring guitar and organ, (which is destined to appear in the upcoming USOUNDS film, Around the World with Ric Befara) this song is quick, complex, and lethally effective in its 1:30 mission.

You Always Walk Alone
This is the kind of pop song that you may not think about for days, but the next time you hear it, you sing along instantly, without or without the right words. It's also the kind that gives slim shivers when the lyrics are finally read...