Review | Beau Bennett – Palette

By Julian Laws

Beau Bennett and her wickedly talented band succeed in pleasing listeners, by taking them through a well-realised 4-song EP,  with each track oozing with its own various colours.

Either through smart lyricism or tasteful harmony the band produces a collective catharsis, highlighting life as a palette of colours, and inspiring listeners’ outlooks to be more multicoloured, multifaceted, expansive, to not have an arbitrary view on life and to learn from only living in just ‘black and white’. 

Cascading us through a display of different emotions, the songs trickle like a waterfall and segue seamlessly into one another. ‘Palette‘ has it all: from pumping drum parts to get you moving (Apricity), ethereal vocal performances that feel as if you’re floating, to guitar solos that pull you out the reverie… and send you immediately back into another one!

The third track ‘Rose Tinted Glasses’, which has been teased with a video that embodies warmth and nostalgia, is another track which could stand alone as a single and still tell a hundred different stories. The age old adage of ‘seeing things through rose tinted glasses’ is so beautifully personified in this track. Cyclical backing vocals urge us to ‘rewind’, before Beau belts out ‘have I just lost the love of my life?’ It is almost like Beau is going through past recollections of decisions made and the regret one can feel looking back through them all retrospectively. The song resolves with the overarching message that looking back through life is like looking through rose tinted glasses. You see the situation –  the breakup or argument – with a slightly sympathetic eye. Perhaps, an eye that blurs your reasoning as to why you argued or broke up in the first place. Beau is urging listeners to remember you made the right choices, even if in retrospect it felt wrong. The present is now and that is all that matters. 

Beau Bennett’s aim is to present life as a precarious wave, in which we are all trying to remain upright upon, and is highlighted so beautifully throughout this EP. I, for one, am excited to see where her journey takes her –  what wave will she ride? What colour will she live? All I know is her positivity enshrouds this EP. Listeners are left with a sense of hope, of a feeling that they are doing the right thing if they just see every lived experience as a new added colour to their palette.