Puma Night is the recent EP from All Her Years, a record born from the band’s spare room at their house in Earlwood, New South Wales.

By Graeme Smith

We haven’t featured All Her Years before on this blog, but on the strength of their recent EP, I’m sure we will again soon. It’s an eclectic and refreshing four track collection that will have you hanging on every note.

Opening with What a Lady we get an instant sense that All Her Years are doing something a little different with their take on the folk rock genre. A soft, waltzing tempo sets the pace over which jangly guitars and characterful vocals are poured. There’s a sense that the band don’t take themselves too seriously, which turns out to be their superpower as they deliver bright, fun and compelling track after track.

Blooming Soil softens things with a delicate and intimate moment where the vocals take on a pleading quality. Strange World #2 is a brooding and atmospheric number that features a barely there instrumental in its early running before arriving at an expansive arrangement that leaves it all out there. Title track Puma Night closes things with a simmering, horn-filled track that alternates between soft and punchy. All Her Years certainly save the best for last in a tight collection where there really are no lowlights.

I love how All Her Years are doing their own thing while keeping their sound accessible. There are elements of early Kings of Leon about Puma Night but otherwise it’s difficult to find comparisons for what they’re doing. It’s great to stumble across their music from this side of the world and I’ll certainly by keeping my ear out for more of it.

Puma Night was mixed by Alain De Carne at Byron Music Studio and mastered by Richard Snowden. The EP is out now and you can check it out below.