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Melbourne’s Snowy Belfast specialise in crafting imagined musical stories pitted with the occasional truth. The band’s latest single ‘Stones’ is one such enterprise. Essentially detailing the end of a relationship and the wan hope that both parties will escaped unscathed; ‘Stones’ creates the narrative in both its layers of dark, brooding melody and incisive lyrics delivered with power and tenderness by front woman Esther Holt. Interlocking multiple layers to create orchestral flourishes over a deceptively simple backing, ‘Stones’ is captivating and complex, yet not needlessly complicated. The release of ‘Stones’ sees Snowy Belfast consciously cross the line in the sand marked out by their debut EP Odds And Ends, which was released earlier this year, to explore new musical terrain. The country-infused folk bedrock is still there but their upcoming release sees it infused with a fiery intensity that will be the hallmark of their upcoming long player to be released in early 2012.