Anyone who’s battled through depression will know how ugly it can get. The experimental SPICE aren’t sugar coating that on their second album, Viv. Known for making music on addiction, break-ups and breakdowns, the album continues to offer honesty and upfrontness on the realities of mental illness and that getting better is hard work. Opener Recovery gives us lyrics that could be taken straight from a therapy session. ‘You sacrifice perfect days,’ ‘You have to get out of bed and it’s hard’. It’s both poetic yet painfully open, rehab in musical form. Ashes In The Birdbath explores grief and loss, it’s dizzy, sickly and bittersweet in a beautiful way, with instrumentation that stays incognito of its sadness. Besides the emotive strings it dances and swells with a ...