release date: Oct. 5, 2018
format: digital (10 x File, FLAC)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,72]
producer: Last Dinosaurs, Jean-Paul Fung
label: Dew Process - nationality: Australia
Track highlights: 1. "Eleven" - 2. "Dominos" - 3. "Bass God" - 4. "Sense - 5. "Happy" - 7. "Italo Disco" - 9. "Shallow Boy"
3rd studio album by Last Dinosaurs following three years after Wellness (Aug. 2015) is a welcome back to producer Fung, who produced the band's 2012 full-length debut In a Million Years (Mar. 2012), although, this appears as the first album with the band in the role as co-producer.
It's still first and foremost indie pop but Yumeno Garden introduces a stronger dimension of dream pop, which immediately had me thinking of Swedish band The Radio Dept. e.g. Pet Grief (2006). The band sticks firmly to a basic soundscape of simplistic indie pop, and you could argue that the band doesn't seem eager to explore new territory or to experiment with styles, but with a gift for pop and harmony-driven arrangements Yumeno Garden stands as the band's so far best album.
Recommended.
[ AlbumOfTheYear 75 / 100, TheMusic.com.au 3 / 5 stars ]
