The Full Spectrum: Dear Hunter's Violet EP

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The Dear Hunter: Violet EP

I know the song titled "Home" is in the next EP but Dear Hunter is back home in the Violet EP. The four songs in Violet are a return to their wheelhouse that we've all come to know and love with that piano-driven vaudeville theatrics that feature an expanded instrumentation. As we'll discuss in our future reviews of their Act albums, Dear Hunter is a story-telling band and even though they're not part of any sort of over-arching story each Violet song contain a short story within themselves. What I enjoyed is how all four songs leading in with a piano melody and then expanding to the full instrumentation shortly thereafter. It's like the piano is the bright red curtain the start the show and then pulled back to reveal the full production. The orchestral element is a major part of a lot of the previous EPs but Violet introduces a heavy hand of wind instruments and it all expertly comes to a head in the final song "Look Away." If your first introduction to the band was any of the Act albums, odds are that Violet is probably your favorite EP or at least in the top 3.


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