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To be able to swagger with impunity, you must not only have a reason but you also must understand humility, the modesty in which to carry it off. There are ways in which to show this without looking meek, painfully shy, it is all about deportment and the way you make others feel about themselves.
However you get there it is unlikely that you will have found yourself ordering Two Margarita At The Fifty Five in which to look sophistication in the eye and have it ask you to dance, to pay attention to you and refill your drinks all evening with nothing in return except your company. Such is the power of swagger, of unique vision, and one that makes a couple of Margaritas satisfyingly tasty.
It is a refined moment to which the debut E.P. by Elizabeth The Second’s Ben Moro, Michele Venturini and Luca Gallato deserve to show how they can walk the walk with the strut of Rock guiding their every move, every drop of blood being pushed around the body as if it was on fire, as if the rhythm was being conducted by a sonic-fused adrenaline rush and the hush of introspection and relief.
Two Margarita At The Fifty Five has the energy to make it swagger but it also has weaved within its soul, a raging captivity wanting to be set free, it is in this moment of double pulse machinery that songs such as No One Cares, Mickey, Yesterday I Was 20, Soho and Gimme One Euro find arrogance can be smashed to pieces and faint-heartedness contained; it is the middle of these opposing emotions and states of appearance that we should all attempt to be seen inhabiting.
Influenced by the strongest feelings of desire and observation, as well as the vibe of the Hypnoise Recording Studio, Two Margarita At The Fifty Five is a call out to the memory of the greatest musical moments of the 1990s, the grunge and the hard essence, it is a place where you can set the whisky aside and live it up with best of them, the murals on the walls of the previously anointed smiling broadly as the second Margarita slides down smoothly.
Elizabeth The Second’s Two Margarita At The Fifty Five is out now.
Ian D. Hall