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You Will Never Know Everything is Jeremy Mason's second EP since he left local punk band Kill The Fake Patient, in which he played bass. He wrote this in Glasglow during the winter that fed from 2010 into 2011. It includes dark, minimalist folk songs, which marks a significant divergence from Jeremy's sound on his previous EP Distorted Vision.

This release opens with the simple-but-catchy Fly Away With The Ghosts. The melody, provided by a fast acoustic hook and a driving bassline, lends the track great pace and builds anticipation for the following songs very effectively. The opening line, "Crawl the length of your room / And hide beneath the sheets of doom", as well as, in fact, the title of the song, gives an instant impression of the EP's haunting and simultaneously whimsical atmosphere.

This sense is reinforced by the following track Living Blind, which has a notably dark musical progression on the lone acoustic guitar, and similarly bleak lyrics, in which Jeremy ingeniously rhymes, "And look behind / Living blind". Rest takes an appropriately slower pace, with a warm and accommodating sound and lyrics. It puts the listener in a good state of mind for the final track.

Exit Song possesses the warmest sound on the album. "Driving out of town / And feeling like the whole world is your own" is a line that very much solidifies the atmosphere of the You Will Never Know Everything EP. It also feeds strikingly well into Fly Away With The Ghosts when you inevitably decide to give it another spin.

- Gary Farrow