Neil Young "Unplugged" (1993) (live)

Unplugged (live)
release date: Jun. 8, 1993
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5]
producer: David Briggs
label: Reprise - nationality: Canada

Tracklist: 1. "The Old Laughing Lady" - 2. "Mr. Soul" - 3. "World on a String" - 4. "Pocahontas" - 5. "Stringman" - 6. "Like a Hurricane" (4 / 5) - 7. "The Needle and the Damage Done" - 8. "Helpless" - 9. "Harvest Moon" (4 / 5) - 10. "Transformer Man" (2 / 5) - 11. "Unknown Legend" (4 / 5) - 12. "Look Out for My Love" - 13. "Long May You Run" - 14. "From Hank to Hendrix"

Neil live on MTV. Of course he did an unplugged album in the '90s like all major artists back then. The album is again like a documentation of his live abilities. This time it's almost unassisted, just Neil and his instruments, whether he accompanies himself on guitar, harmonica, banjo, organ, or on piano. It's a fine collection of songs, although some of the tracks are found in better versions on other live releases, e.g. his gigantic song "Like a Hurricane" is not the best of versions here but it's fine to hear him in a totally different and very condensed version.
All tracks were recorded at Universal Studios, Los Angeles, Feb. 7, 1993.

Mellemblond "Et øje" (2012), single

Et øje, single
release date: Nov. 12, 2012
format: digital
[single rate: 4 / 5] [3,86]

Single track: "Et øje"

A fine single release by Mellemblond from the band's forthcoming album. This shows the continued change of style more evidently away from the distorted guitars and simple production into more contemporary champer pop. Here the lead vocalist Kristoffer Munck Mortensen sounds more like Danish Lars H.U.G. than the late Eik Skaløe from Steppeulvene as he tended do assimilate on the debut.

M.I.A. "/\/\ /\ Y /\" (2010)

/\/\ /\ Y /\
release date: Jul. 13, 2010
format: cd (XLCD 497)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,70]
producer: various
label: XL Recordings - nationality: England, UK

Track highlights: 2. "Steppin Up" - 3. "XXXO" - 4. "Teqkilla" - 7. "It Takes a Muscle" (4 / 5) - 8. "It Iz What It Iz" - 9. "Born Free" - 11. "Tell Me Why"

3rd studio album by M.I.A. released on her own label N.E.E.T. through XL Recordings and Interscope Records. The album is named after herself, Mathangi Arulpragasam, or just "Maya", which is also the correct way to pronounce her artist name, M.I.A.

I find the album more complex than the fine Kala (2007), and initially found this a lesser album, but it really contains some fine tracks. Stylistically, this is not like her 2007 album, but more electronically-founded with glitch pop, electroclash, and what may be identified as industrial - some also call it synth punk or noise pop. Anyway, it is more 'noisy' and probably less mainstream oriented, and I think of it as her second best album. It really makes sense that it's more complex - giving the fact that it's about herself. It reflects her life, her struggles with identity, the Sri-Lankan (violent) background, and her view and feelings about love and politics, which is a bit of a mouthful. And therefore it can only be complex, and anything but polished.

[ allmusic.com, The Guardian, Slant 3 / 5, Rolling Stone 4 / 5, Spin 4,5 / 5 stars ]

The Go-Betweens "Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express" (1986)

Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express

release date: Mar. 1986

format: cd (1996 remaster) / 2 cd (2004 remaster)

[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,72]

producer: The Go-Betweens & Richard Preston

label: Beggars Banquet / Lo-Max Records - nationality: Australia

Track highlights: 1. "Spring Rain" (4 / 5) - 2. "The Ghost and the Black Hat" - 3. "The Wrong Road" - 5. "Twin Layers of Lightning" - 6. "In the Core of the Flame" - 7. "Head Full of Steam" (4 / 5) - 9. "Palm Sunday (On Board the SS Within)"

4th studio album by The Go-Betweens released two years following Spring Hill Fair (1984) is the band's second consecutive album as a quartet. It's the band's first on Beggars Banquet, and the album release may have been delayed as they had previously signed with Elektra, who then closed its UK division in the middle of the recording sessions leaving the band with a newly recorded album but no record label. Luckily, they were then approached by Beggars Banquet with a recording deal for three albums in total.

The standard album contains ten tracks. The enhanced 2 cd issue contains an additional 11 tracks as well as the music videos for tracks #1 and #7. For the first time around the album is produced by the band who brought in Richard Preston as sound engineer, which means they were in control of what they wanted. Also, it's made without various additional musicians thrown in here and there, although, Tracey Thorn (Everything but the Girl who made friends with the band) is worth mentioning as she sings backing vocals on tracks #7 and #10.

Soundwise, it's bond to Before Hollywood (1983) as being both a more scraped down album than the predecessor but also with more varied arrangements. For the first time, the band makes use of a strings section with music arranged by Audrey Riley (who should later work with Coldplay). It's an album reflecting more inward and quiet music than more obvious pop harmonies, and there's a stronger sensation of folk rock sound on all compositions.

The album was well-received and saw many music critics' positive reviews hailing the album as one of the band's absolute best. However, as with most other albums by The Go-Betweens, the album failed to approach anything near top-10 anywhere. It's listed as number #62 on the Australian charts and with no entry figures anywhere else. "Spring Rain" and "Head Full of Steam" were released as the two singles from the album without noteworthy charts. Perhaps the band would have been better off had they signed with Warner or another big label to help them promote their music 'cause critics really loved the band, but then they probably would if presented with such an offer.

I have always found this a transitional album - certainly not poor or a lesser release as it's the band's so far best. For once they seem to have found their own path away from the stronger indie rock type of compositions with bonds to Velvet Underground, The Byrds and Tom Verlaine as heard on the sophomore album and the lighter pop / rock songs with bolder mainstream appeal, which is most clearly heard on the band's sixth studio album from 1988. Liberty Bell provides a bunch of playful songs that reek a new-found lightness and strong coherence.

Recommended.

[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, Blender 4 / 5, NME, Select, Uncut 5 / 5 stars ]

Anna von Hausswolff "Ceremony" (1995)

Ceremony
release date: Jul. 18, 2012
format: digital
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,36]
producer: Filip Leyman
label: City Slang - nationality: Sweden

Track highlights: 1. "Epitaph of Theodor" - 2. "Deathbed" - 4. "Goodbye" - 6. "Epitaph of Daniel" - 8. "Liturgy of Light" - 11. "Sova" (live) - 12. "Funeral for My Future Children"

2nd studio album by Swedish artist Anna von Hausswolff contains 13 tracks and its running time is just above the hour. Stylistically, it's a rather different release than her two year old debut as it builds on repetitive simple patterns of neoclassical origin. It's still touching on the art pop of her former release but here in an ambient pop style and the most significant change is its quite sinister sound, which has led to label it as neoclassical darkwave, and combined with the ambient and slow, progressive compositions it becomes almost meditative. Several songs are build around the pipe organ [referenced in the cover] and with bold use of echo / delay effects on both vocals and other instruments, it sounds as if recorded in a church.
It's not an immediate favourite of mine, but Anna von Hausswolff sounds like she's directing her music to a summoning of some holy or unholy nature, and she also presents compositions that build on classical formulas and yet sound quite unique, although, I find that it builds on music by Dead Can Dance, as well as neoclassical, artist Jocelyn Pook, and as contrary to her debut, this is a much stronger original piece of art.
[ allmusic.com 3,5 / 5 stars ]

Morrissey "Now My Heart Is Full" (1994) (single)

Now My Heart Is Full, single
release date: Aug. 23, 1994
format: digital
[single rate: 4 / 5] [4,12]
producer: Steve Lillywhite
label: Sire Records - nationality: England, UK

Tracklist: 1. "Now My Heart Is Full" (4 / 5) - 2. "Moonriver [Extended version]" - 3. "Jack the Ripper (live)" (5 / 5)

Single release by Morrissey released by Sire and produced by Steve Lillywhite. The title track is from his most recent studio album Vauxhall and I (Mar. 1994). The end track is enlisted as recorded live in Paris on Dec. 12, 1992, but to me it's identical to the version one will find on the live album Beethoven Was Deaf (1993), which was recorded Dec. 22, 1992.

Oh Land "Earth Sick" (2014)

Earth Sick
release date: Nov. 10, 2014
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,12]
producer: Nanna Øland Fabricius and Tore Nissen
label: Tusk or Tooth - nationality: Denmark

Track highlights: 3. "Head Up High" - 5. "Nothing Is Over" - 7. "Half Hero" (live take) - 10. "Little Things" - 11. "Flags" - 13. "Trailblazer"

4th studio album by Oh Land is a fine art pop / synthpop release. Listening to this I honestly don't understand why Danish artists like Mø, Vinnie Who, or When Saints Go Machine attract much more attention. This is solid pop on par with international artists like Lana Del Rey, Ane Brun, and Émilie Simon, and although, this is a bit in the polished end of art pop in a way, I don't listen much to, this is clearly one of her better studio releases to date. Perhaps the negative side to it is that it's too close to a perfect mix of Lykke Li, Lana Del Rey and Marina and the Diamonds - being both slow 'artsy' and more uptempo pop-ish as Marina.
Her album Oh Land was well-received around the world but despite having released two fine follow-up albums to positive reviews, she has been neglected and met as a mere has-been.

Tom Waits "Night on Earth" (OST) (1992)

Night on Earth (soundtrack)
release date: Apr. 7, 1992
format: vinyl / cd
[album rate: 4 / 5]
producer: Tom Waits
label: Island Records - nationality: USA

Track highlights: [ full album ]

An absolutely wonderful soundtrack by Tom Waits for an equally wonderful film by Jim Jarmusch.
Highly recommended.

Michael Falch "Michael Falch" (1985)

Michael Falch [debut]

release date: Mar. 1985

format: cd (reissue - MDCD 6230)

[album rate: 2,5 / 5] [2,58]

producer: Jesper Ranum

label: Medley Records - nationality: Denmark

Track highlights: 3. "Navn og nummer" - 4. "Nye tider" - 10. "Sommer på vej"

Studio solo debut by Michael Falch following the disbandment of Malurt and the band's (so far) final album Tour de Force (Oct. 1983). The album is co-produced by Thomas Brekling and Falch.

With this, the former front figure of Malurt makes an effort to distance himself from the band releases with an album characterised by other primary instrumentation than classic guitar rock-set-up with synths (Fairlight) and a distinct melodic pop style. Keyboardist Pete Repete of Malurt is the only former band member, who plays on this but also Per Chr. Frost (of Gnags), the producer of Tour de Force is a recurring figure, now credited on bass. The front cover displays Falch with a guitar over his shoulder but it appears that all guitar performances are credited Søren Wolff (of SW80). All songs and music is credited Falch except two songs (tracks #1 and #9) with music co-composed by producer and keyboardist Jesper Ranum.

I purhased the album as it was released but I never became accustomed with the open pop-style and ended up reselling the album less than a decade later. However, Falch and the album was fairly well-received by the public, although, critics didn't exactly see it as neither innovative nor as a major work, and in retrospect, the album stands very much on its own.

Imo, the album falls pretty much on the same grade as Tour de Force and is not a recommended album.

Thin Lizzy "Jailbreak" (1976)

Jailbreak
release date: Mar. 26, 1976
format: cd (1990 reissue)
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,88]
producer: John Alcock
label: Vertigo Records - nationality: Ireland

Track highlights: 1. "Jailbreak" (4 / 5) - 2. "Angel From the Coast" - 3. "Running Back" (4 / 5) - 4. "Romeo and the Lonely Girl" (4,5 / 5) - 5. "Warriors" - 6. "The Boys Are Back in Town" (4,5 / 5) - 7. "Fight or Fall"

6th studio album by Thin Lizzy follows only 6 months after Fighting (Sep. 1976) but that short period doesn't affect the quality of the songs. John Alcock is producer and the line-up is unchanged but the band really has found its sound of hard rock with this one. The directness of the predecessor has been accentuated but it's more in the musical output and in the songwriting that the album stands above all of their previous releases. It's not the hard rock style exemplified by Deep Purple, AC/DC or Queen. Thin Lizzy's music is still founded on more bold harmonies, heard in chorus lines and lead guitar notes and with the sonic power of twin guitars.
Jailbreak is one of the band's best reviewed albums and it reached number #10 on the albums chart list in the UK. I don't think that I ever listened to the album until the early 80s when I didn't think much of it. To me, the music and the band represented a different style and time, but it also appealed to another subculture, who didn't enjoy new wave or punk rock.
Today, I consider this the band's peak.
[ allmusic.com 5 / 5 stars ]

Paul Weller "Wild Wood" (1993)

Wild Wood
release date: Sep. 6, 1993
format: 2 cd (2007 remaster Deluxe Edition)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,62]
producer: Paul Weller, Brendan Lynch
label: Island / Universal - nationality: England, UK

Track highlights: 1. "Sunflower" (4 / 5) - 2. "Can You Heal Us (Holy Man)" - 3. "Wild Wood" - 6. "Has My Fire Really Gone Out?" - 7. "Country" - 10. "The Weaver" - 12. "Foot of the Mountain" - 16. "Hung Up"

2nd studio album by Paul Weller originally released on Go! Discs shows us a matured musician. The album is reissued in 2007 in a remastered 2-disc Deluxe Edition with Disc One: "Original Album & B-Sides" (22 tracks) and Disc Two: "Bonus Tracks - Demo Versions" (21 tracks) and a total of 43 tracks. The original album contains 15 compositions. 

His heydays with The Jam, his transition period with The Style Council linger in the shadows of this. His first solo album was a mixed bag of all sorts, still with much pop soul and sophisti-pop, which basically seemed like yet another collection of songs that were intended to be issued with The Style Council, but here he comes out very strongly and primarily as a contemporary singer / songwriter building on folk rock, pop soul, influenced by r&b roots. 

This is more than just fine. The album is (the only by Weller to be) enlisted in "1001 Albums You Must Here Before You Die", and in 1994 it was nominated the British award, The Mercury Prize (alongside e.g. The Prodigy, Blur, and Pulp), which eventually was handed to M People for Elegant Slumming.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, Rolling Stone 4 / 5, Uncut Magazine 5 / 5 stars ]

The Pogues "Hell's Ditch" (1990)

Hell's Ditch
release date: Nov. 6, 1990
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5]
producer: Joe Strummer
label: Island Records - nationality: England, UK

Track highlights: 1. "The Sunnyside of the Street" (5 / 5) (live in 2012) - 2. "Sayonara" - 3. "The Ghost of a Smile" (4 / 5) - 6. "Summer in Siam" (4 / 5) - 7. "Rain Street" - 10. "House of the Gods" (4 / 5) - 11. "5 Green Queens and Jean"

5th full studio album by The Pogues produced by Joe Strummer who had become more and more engaged in the band's activities and from '91 served as official substitute for MacGowan. I have always liked the album more than is easy to explain. I find it better than Peace and Love (1989) but it's also obvious that it's not on the same level as the two great full albums and the ep from 1985-88. My guess is, Hell's Ditch has a considerable amount of Shane MacGowan's signature (9 out of 13 tracks), which easily lifts the album above average. However, the band struggles just to hang on, as MacGowan's alcohol problems are beyond difficult. Apparently, some tracks were more than difficult to record as he was almost never sober but I think Strummer has done a great job finding that "edgy tone" of theirs, which is not just mainstream pop / rock but also a crossover of pub rock and celtic rock with parts of folk punk. The album is the last to feature founding member, vocalist and primary composer Shane MacGowan, who was permanently sacked from the band after this release as he was unable to help promote the album on the following tour, where Strummer substituted on vocals. MacGowan went on making music and in 1994 he released new material with the full studio album The Snake in his new band Shane MacGowan and The Popes.
[ allmusic.com hands it 3 / 5 stars ]

Nena "Wunder gescheh'n" (1989)

Wunder gescheh'n
release date: Apr. 5, 1989
format: cd (2010 reissue)
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,18]
producer: Walter Keiser, Phil Carmen
label: Columbia / Legacy / Sony Music - nationality: Germany

Track highlights: 1. "Wunder gescheh'n" - 2. "Du bist überall" - 5. "Weisses Schiff" (4 / 5) (live) - 6. "Im Rausch der Liebe" (maxi version)

Solo studio album debut by Nena [Gabriele Susanne 'Nena' Kerner] following the disbandment of the band Nena in 1987. Several tracks are written with former bassist Jürgen Dehmel from the band.
Musically, it's is a more laid back soft rock version of pop / rock, which basically suits Kerner's voice well.
Prior to this release, and while pregnant, Nena experienced the loss of an 11 months old boy, but during the recording of the album, she also experienced the happy news of expecting twins. Not surprisingly, the album is much about existentialism. In Germany, Nena seems closely associated with the track "Weisses Schiff", which is a fine composition about dreams and loss.
Both "Du bist überall", "Weisses Schiff", and "Im Rausch der Liebe" are of a high quality, but the overall sensation is still one of a first draft and a learning process of being a solo artist. Some tracks are just not strong enough and colour the overall impression.
Following this, she released her first of several albums with music for children, her artistic successor Bongo Girl from '92, followed by her third album Und alles dreht sich (1994). Then followed another album with music for children, a live album, an third album for children, and then she released her fourth 'real' studio album Jamma nich' in 1997.
[ allmusic.com 3 / 5 stars ]

Chumbawamba "WYSIWYG" (2000)

WYSIWYG
release date: Apr. 4, 2000
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,18]
producer: Chumbawamba, Neil Ferguson
label: EMI Records - nationality: England, UK

Track highlights: 1. "I'm With Stupid" - 2. "Shake Baby Shake" - 3. "Pass It Along" - 11. "I'm Not Sorry, I Was Having Fun" - 14. "She's Got All the Friends"

9th studio album by Chumbawamba follows 2½ years after Tubthumber (1997) and it's their second album for EMI. Both in style and in lyrics, they have moved somewhat towards a mainstream pop / rock universe, although, it's also highly unconventional consisting of 25 tracks [!] with a total running time at 55 minutes, which leaves the average playing time per track just a little above two minutes. With short tracks in between more regular compositions, they still maintain their tongue-in-cheek British humour and enjoyable look on everyday life. Earlier albums had either more electronic edge and / or political harsher stands, but what I really miss here are the great catchy melodies.
In a way this is their The Beautiful South album. It's close to being sophisti-pop which is a long way from their anarcho-punk roots.
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get... meaning: a barking dog?! I mean that has to be taken into consideration. The band has always had at least one foot in the (ultra-) left side of British politics and been an outspoken valve of some sort. The barking dog that tells you something isn't right [right?!]. And then with song titles here dealing with completely non-political issues, it becomes a wee bit odd. Where's the bite then?
[ allmusic.com 4 / 5, Rolling Stone 1,5 / 5 stars ]

The Cure "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" (1987)

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
release date: May 5, 1987
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,44]
producer: David M. Allen, Robert Smith
label: Fiction Records - nationality: England, UK

Track highlights: 1. "The Kiss" - 5. "Why Can't I Be You" - 6. "How Beautiful You Are" - 9. "Just Like Heaven" (4 / 5) - 10. "All I Want" - 12. "One More Time" - 16. "A Thousand Hours"

7th studio album by The Cure. With this the band continues the style from The Head on the Door (Aug. 1985). The album was released as a double vinyl album but released as a single disc cd with the omission of one track to fit playing time limits for cds. Like I had been accustomed to, I went straight out and bought the album. I never got fond of it though. The album signalled the end of my fascination for the band. Occasionally, I listened to the album and found some tracks really great, some really beautiful, and others interesting, but overall I was just tired of Robert Smith's melancholic lamenting voice AND the new orchestrated sound with synths all over the place. Actually, in the early '90s I resold the album alongside the successor Disintegration (May 1989) with a couple of The Cure 12'' singles to afford to buy new music. Back then I wouldn't have handed it more than 2 / 5 stars, but in retrospect I acknowledge the music, although, I'm not really fond of it either.
[ allmusic.com, Rollings Stone 4 / 5, Blender 5 / 5 stars ]

Annika Aakjær "Missionær" (2010)

Missionær

release date: Feb. 8, 2010
format: cd (Digipak)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,62]
producer: Henrik Marstal
label: Playground - nationality: Denmark

Track highlights: 1. "Dagens tekst" - 2. "For tiden" - 3. "Missionær" - 4. "Marie Magdalene" - 5. "De fik dig aldrig" - 6. "Pænhed er kommet til byen" - 9. "Den maskerede hævner"

2nd studio album by Danish singer / songwriter Annika Aakjær follows a little less than two years after her fine debut Lille filantrop (May 2008) is like that produced by Herik Marstal. This collection of ten new songs continue in more or less the same style. Both the lyrics, being slightly more diverse, as well as the music, which appears slightly more dynamic are here on a higher level. Also, Aakjær now challenges her singing voice more, which isn't a traditional pop vocal but a strong, and highly charismatic one. Yet, it's still in a folk pop universe. I find that her lyrical universe has much in common with the male artist Allan Olsen - only this is aeons better.

[ collectors' item - from ~ 35€ ]

Morrissey & Siouxsie "Interlude" (1994) (single)

Interlude, single

release date: Aug. 8, 1994

format: digital

[single rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,42]

producer: Boz Boorer

label: Parlophone - nationality: England, UK

Tracklist: 1. "Interlude" - 2. "Interlude (Extended)" - 3. "Interlude (Instrumental"

Single release by Morrissey and Siouxsie Sioux released under the name 'Morrissey & Siouxsie' as a standalone duo project. The song is a cover a song with lyrics by Hal Shaper and music by George Delerue for a 1968 British film of the same name directed by Kevin Billington. The song for the film was originally performed by Timi Yuro.

Morrissey had reportedly made several attempts in arranging a duet project with Sioux, and finally she accepted the song here after Morrissey's many suggestions for possible cover songs.

The song is a chamber pop-styled ballad and it was met by some appraisal landing at number #25 on the UK singles chart. The song is quite nicely arranged and performed, but is still mostly a collector's item without the most evident qualities.

George Michael and Queen "Five Live" (1993) (live)

Five Live, ep (live)
release date: Apr. 1993
format: vinyl
[album rate: 2,5 / 5] [2,48]
producer: Queen, George Michael, Roy Thomas Baker
label: Parlophone - nationality:

Collaboration ep released as 'George Michael and Queen with Lisa Stansfield' recorded at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, Apr. 20, 1992, at Wembley Stadium, London. The album contains six songs - three per side, of which George Michael appears on five, Queen on three, and Lisa Stansfield on one track only.

Gianna Nannini "Maschi e altri" (1987)

Maschi e altri (compilation)
release date: 1987
format: vinyl (TGN 9) / digital
[album rate: 4 / 5]
producer: various
label: Fonit Cetra - nationality: Italy

Compilation album by Gianna Nannini containing most of her biggest international hits.

Mew "A Triumph for Man" (1997)

A Triumph for Man [debut]
release date: Apr. 1, 1997
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,52]
producer: Damon Tutunjian; Mew (co-producer)
label: Exlibris / Evil Office - nationality: Denmark

Track highlights: 1. "Wheels Over Me" - 3. "Wherever" - 4. "Panda" - 7. "No Shadow Kick" - 9. "She Came Home for Christmas" - 11. "I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi (For You)" - 13. "Web" - 14. "Coffee Break"

Studio album debut by Mew originally released on the small Danish label Exlibris Musik in only 2000 copies. The album was reissued as a 2-disc version (with a bonus disc containing demo and alternate recordings) in 2006 by Evil Office, the band's own sub-label of Sony BMG. Unfortunately, I never came across the album back then, but I knew of the band around '98, alas without ever paying it much attention. The reissue album contains a bonus disc with demo and alternate takes. Mew formed in 1994 as a quartet consisting of Jonas Bjerre on lead vocals, Bo Madsen on guitar, Johan Wohlert on bass, and with Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen on drums.

The music is an original mix of indie pop, dream pop, shoegaze, and noise pop with inspirational sources from My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, Mazzy Star, and Swirlies [album producer Damon Tutunjian is part of this band]. The album has delicate blue-eyed pop-moments and fine progressive pop / art pop ideas - almost post rock elements, only I find that the album mostly functions in a sense of making sketching to something... more, but definitely full of sheer talent.

[ Sputnikmusic 4,5 / 5 stars ]