I first came across the Jezabels in Danny MacAskill’s Way Back Home video, which features their song A Little Piece. It turns out that the whole album, Dark Storm, is amazing. In some ways it sounds a bit similar to Florence + The Machine’s Lung album. The Jezabels are definitely more folksy, at least on this album, but it has that same kind of high, swooping energy and hint of darkness to the sounds with an awful big dash of darkness in the actual lyrics.
It’s not a fair comparison as there are only five songs in this album, but there are very few albums from which I routinely listen to all the songs, and this is one of them. Dark Storm and Mace Spray are almost definitely the best, but the others are excellent as well.
As far as I know the band hasn’t really hit the big time yet, so make sure to check this out now so when they do take off—something I think very possible—you can be all “Yeah, I heard of ’em, you know, before everybody had heard of them.” Damn hipsters.