Tiny Habits – ‘Keepers’ review: hushed harmony-makers stride into sunny new sound

Ever since their fated formation in the hallowed stairwells of the Berklee College Of Music back in 2021, Tiny Habits have invited us to slow down. Whether you’ve scrolled onto their viral folk-infused covers to hear those divinely dissonant harmonies, been entranced by their backing vocals for indie darling Lizzy McAlpine or, most recently, watched clips of them singing the first dance song at the wedding of The 1975 frontman Matty Healy and Gabbriette Bechtel, the trio’s seemingly destined voices insist you stop and listen. READ MORE: London MC Kibo is on a mission to bring “a sense of magic” to life’s mundanity Yet, while they have contributed many a beautiful “harmony on somebody’s story”, as they put it to NME in their 2024 Cover interview, with debut album ‘All For Something’, Tiny Habits proved they had just as much to say with their own profound lyrics as they did their wow-factor cover harmonies. And on second album ‘Keepers’, the tight-knit trio of Cinya Khan, Maya Rae and Judah Mayowa dial up the volume to drive that home. Where their debut found Tiny Habits emerging somewhat timidly from the introverted folk-pop haze of the post-pandemic years, ‘Keepers’ feels like they...