To be honest, A Lot Like Eskimos try far too hard to fit in to what is current rather than focusing on a sound that suits them. They sound like Panic at the Disco meets a cheesey synth pop band; their attempts at being majestic and pomp like Panic fall a bit flat because it all sounds very familiar – not bad, just generic and predictable. ‘Pretty Handsome’, for example, is nice and catchy but has such an OTT American band you’d never guess the band actually came from Leeds.
It’s a trait the band continue during each of the three songs – there’s a catchy chorus and some clever production but there’s too much going on. The synths are completely not necessary, neither are the samples during ‘Sleeping With Ghosts’. It just makes this EP sound like everything else out there at the minute and smacks of a band struggling to find their own sound. It’s a shame because the talent is clearly there and if they tour hard they could make a name for themselves, but they borrow way too much from other more famous acts and it majorly detracts from the end quality.