WRITTEN BY: ALLEEN HUGHES

Jetty Bones - "Old Women" EP

Take This To Heart Records

Release Date: October 6, 2017

An angelic vocalist combed in with catchy and folky instrumentals provided by input from friends, Jetty Bones is technically a solo project with a full band mentality but this project is anything but the efforts of one person. Emerging from a small town in Ohio, Jetty Bones is the musical endeavor of Kelc Galluzzo, who utilizes a core group of friends that help bring the project to life on stage. Jetty Bones new EP "Old Women" is a story of progress, growth, and the development of human connection - something often overlooked in today's society. In a world so focused on outward appearances, "Old Women" takes you on a journey through one girl's mental and emotional attempts to attach to something in a more genuine way, that something being other people.

Instantly the first song makes you fall in love with Galluzzo and her beautiful danty voice. The title “Clear Honey” perfectly labels the vibe of the vocal ranges and pitches, clear and concise and sweet like honey. Galluzzo throws some sass in her delivery showing her fun personality that I can assume she has on stage just by hearing this EP. Offering a different writing approach than the intro track, “Innocent Party” is more twangy yet aggressively poppy. The actual lyrics to the song are more personal and are relatable to anyone that feels they are just not heard regardless of how much work they put out just for someone to listen to what they have to say. After listening to the EP several times over, “No Lover” easily is my most favorable track off the EP. The message behind the song is something of topic that everyone has been through at some point. “I don’t need a lover” is one of those lyrics that you want to write down on a post it and strategically place it on your mirror to remind yourself everyday that “love” isn’t something everyone needs to be happy in life.

Gulluzzo’s strong but delicate vocal approach in “Morning Clothes” made this song come close to being my favorite. Her ability to drop her pitches from more throaty and spoken back to her soft peaks is impressive and left me with goose bumps. It is in this song however that instrumentals were more prominent with the complex and progressive guitar leads in the bridge. I had to stop myself from wanting to jump straight to the closing song because of the name featured on the track, the very talented and one of my favorites, Dylan Mattheisen of Tiny Moving Parts. The beginning of “Spokes” sounds similar to the preceding Jetty Bones tracks but as soon as Dylan starts in you can hear the Tiny Moving Parts influence and it’s nothing short of phenomenal.

Musically this EP falls into the world of Paramore and Eisley meets Tiny Moving Parts, literally. Galluzzo has soft vocals like Sherri DuPree but punchy and powerful like Hailey Williams. This band exists to encourage people to rise above every day situations and push for a life with better meaning and the message is clearly delivered in the five inspirational and lyrically deep tracks. I look forward to what more Jetty Bones has to offer in the future.

5/5

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