Sister Bardot (aka Tracy Godding) asks powerful questions throughout this new spellbinding EP Love and Loss. Godding, being the former lead singer and guitarist of Bandit Queen, a 90’s indie rock three-piece, is no stranger to creating art through song and wrote, recorded and self-produced the EP in her studio in Brighton. This EP is for fans of The Weather Station, Roxy Plain, LUMP and King Hannah.
Godding described the EP as “Kae Tempest meets Arab Strap“, also sharing about the EP that:
“Every loss reveals what we are. Lush, emotive and emerging directly from the soul.”
Loss and Love opens with the powerful first track, ‘Some Kind of Blue’. This song references a 1970’s psychedelic trip down memory lane, conjuring images of floating on a deep blue ocean of Sister Bardot’s emotions. This song quietly builds throughout, adding to the ever-cool Pink Floyd-ian bass line that runs ever-present in this song. This song feels weightless and like the beginning of something healing. ‘Quince’, the next track, has this same weightless emotionality to it, allowing the song to ebb and flow like the ocean the last track introduced us to. This song addresses the family, siblings, and parents directly and offers them comforting words of encouragement. The dark turn on the line ‘there must be more’ towards the end of the track highlights the ever-changing emotions of grief and how quickly they can appear, then disappear.
The final track of the Love and Loss EP is ‘2 Magpies’. This track is brighter in tone, more hopeful and reminiscent of ‘Don’t Dream It’ from the ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’. This song is a trippy, empowering hit about change and growth, about relearning yourself after grief.