“I am not the best person to speak to when it comes to defining the ominous title of anti-folk. in fact, I;m possibly the worst. It seems to me that occasionally twee and comical singer-songwriters are smeared with the genre, while more frequently those charged with championing the cause are folk artists baring a grudge against society, with a contradictory penchant for singing about nothing else. So does that make anti-folk a witty yet hypocritical British exercise against anything socially-binding?
If that’s the case, Naomi Hates Humans is everything that falls under the genre, minus the folk influence – as her name implies, she’s anti. Every track on her self-titled EP, which followed 2008’s debut album Pipe Dreams And Lullabies, suggests so: from the self-involved “Heroes Like Us”, which denounces the modern day Superman and declares the backwards minority superior, to the powerful grunge on “Half The Man”.
That kind of description could spiral the release into a negative light; reality couldn’t be farther from the truth. While her debut brimmed with a sultry, sparse production, Naomi Hates Humans is full of driving percussion and fierce, provoking vocals. Something which, given more air, may have become stifling, but given a four-track slams itself against its walled enclosure and spits at its critics with a crooked sneer.
Everything but everything a young, disillusioned mind craves.”