I loved their first album, the energy about that effort was just overwhelming, melodies bounced into your ears and back and forth through your mind. It was music that you couldn't help wanting to dance to and to sing along to.
Alas their second effort seems to have lost that a bit, the first three tracks are missing something, the bounce has gone. They're trying to go into a slightly different direction on this album and it isn't working, the production is too glossy and the hooks aren't working.
There are positive things though, 'Dream About Me' is similar to the rest of the album but the hook is much better and the song, while not being of the same quality as their earlier work, it's still decent. 'Help Me Close My Eyes' however suffers fromm the same ailment as the rest of the album, detachment. Even as Linnea Jönsson sings "I want to hide where trees are falling down" it just seems empty.
The album does pick up a bit with 'Can't Find Entrance' which sound less detached than previous, and reaches its high point with the jittery 'Fuckarias' which is the only song on the album that in any way matches up to their earlier work. The rest of the album seems to fade out from there, ending with the final song 'One Day Forever' a closer that would have worked better had it been preceded by some better songs.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment