The Little Phrase ask Is This the World and make ordinary life feel philosophical

The Little Phrase’s Is This the World arrives on 14 June with the kind of title that sounds like someone has stepped outside, looked at the sky, and suddenly suspected reality of poor management. The Toronto band describe themselves around art-pop, indie arrangements, literary songwriting and jazz musicianship, and that is exactly the sort of mix that can make a debut feel bigger than its modest release footprint. What stands out is the ambition. The songs are not just trying to decorate a mood. They seem to ask how a person becomes a person under the pressure of mirrors, memory, philosophy, love and daily routine. References around Virginia Woolf, Plato and Coltrane could become heavy furniture in the wrong hands, but The Little Phrase appear to use them as windows rather than trophies. Is This the World feels like smart indie music that still remembers to breathe.

Source: https://thelittlephrase.bandcamp.com/album/is-this-the-world