Le Pie: And He Said Honey, You Look So Fine

Consider the fact we’ve got the Italian stallion Donny Benet on one side of Sydney, throwback pop-rockers Green Buzzard on the other – and then, unassuming but powerful, Le Pie rests somewhere in the middle with a pensive demeanour wrapped up in a heartbroken backstory.

And He Said Honey, You Look So Fine is a winning debut, introducing Le Pie as a thinker and a dreamer, one foot firmly placed in reality, the other in an idealised world where everything works out just like it does in the movies (particularly classic French cinema). Le Pie, who performs every instrument on this EP, delivers a highly stylised thread of brooding indie-pop that’s equal parts atmospheric guitar work and tear-stained, tricky vocals.

It can be overly melancholic at times, with each of the five tracks running closely in parallel to one another. If a grand compilation of teenage diary confessions were set to music, this would be the result.

A striking (if not overly forlorn) debut that exhibits the Sydney songwriter’s flair for sentimental storytelling delivered over emotive, DIY guitar confessionals.