release date: Aug. 28, 2015
format: digital (10 x File, FLAC)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,60]
producer: Scott Horscroft
label: Dew Process - nationality: Australia
Track highlights: 1. "Take Your Time" - 2. "Evie" - 3. "Karma" - 4. "Wurl" - 6. "Apollo" - 7. "Always" - 8. "Purist" - 9. "Stream" (Audiotree live)
2nd full-length album by Australian indie pop quartet Last Dinosaurs following 3½ years after In a Million Years (Mar. 2012). At some point in 2013, bassist Sam Gethin-Jones left the band reduced to a trio, and back is Michael Sloane, who had been part of the earliest formation of the band back in 2007.
Wellness is better produced, better mixed, and it comes out as a much more originally-sounding album with several fine songs and no fillers. The band still play indie pop, but here they have added more complexity to their songs, and together with added synths and electronic bits, it just feels like a warm southern breeze rooted in Australasia.
Recommended.
