Music Review // Miles Jenson "Sunshine Goldmine EP"

When first listening to the music of Miles Jenson, I heard the song "Country Club", which is the way this EP begins.   It's interesting because when I first heard that song I didn't think about it, but now hearing it at the start of this EP just really has me hearing this build which shows why it is such a great lead off song.  The titular song is up next and that has all of this drama surrounding it, which was somewhat brought upon by the first song, but it really just makes you feel like you're not sure what genre we're in.

As you can think about those more serious sounding songs by Panic At The Disco (when he went solo) you can also begin to hear these smooth melodies come out with the starts and stops on the song "Turn On A Dime".  The third and final song on this EP really brings it all together nicely as it felt like we were building to something and this is it.  This song really feels like, musically and lyrically, the culimination of the first two songs and they all three just come together so perfectly.

While "Country Club" addresses those people who seem happy because they have money (bur really aren't happy), "Turn On A Dime" has the lines: "I can't be happy all the time / Baby, I turn on a dime".   It's true that in life sometimes we're feeling happy and things are going well, but then one thing happens to change that and it all sort of spirals out of control.  This also just feels like such a great theme throughout these three songs- where it doesn't just feel like they are three songs but they are connected in that way.

Hearing all three songs on this EP gives this more of that jazz singer feeling, like maybe a lounger singer as well, as it just feels more like someone who would be up there in a fancy suit.  This also comes into play with the lines on "Turn On A Dime" which say: "Refine my taste / And sharpen my tongue / Some things in this life / Can never be undone".   Miles Jenson has created this whole universe within these songs that can remind me of something like "The Great Gatsby" but isn't exactly that because it is unique to Miles Jenson.