Feeding People's "Big Mother" opens with a fat blast of patented, juiced-up Alterna-Rock Guitar Tone, the sort you used to hear on the lead singles from grunge outfits once they cleaned up and signed with major labels. 20-year-old Jessie Jones, meanwhile, has a big brassy, baby-Nancy-Wilson howl of a voice that promises slick pro-rock thrills. But the song is messy and wild and short, flaring out before two minutes' time and fishtailing through a last-minute sped-up sprint to its premature finish line. It's a ear-pricking calling card for their upcoming Island Universe, which was produced by Jonny Bell of Crystal Antlers and Hanni El Khatib.

[from Island Universe; out 02/05/13 via Innovative Leisure]