Fortune - Staring At The Ice Melt
The first full length by this French trio is a careful mix of dance floor friendly tracks that will undoubtedly be remixed to death in view of the impending summer dance party season. Stylistically, Fortune stands on the edge of synth pop that often finds itself flirting with rock sensibilities. Staring At The Ice Melt is a contemporary pop album very much worth listening from start to finish. Out now via French imprint Disque Primeur
Plants And Animals - La La Land
Parc Avenue was without a doubt my favorite Canadian albums of 2008. So, needless to say: expectations for La La Land were high. Maybe too high? Nope. You just come to expect at least the same level of ingenuousness and creative production that you are used to. Instead, on La La Land we are treated to empty, bland and boring tracks.
After the first piece, Tom Cruz, the album seems to progressively get more and more uninteresting and all too familiar sounding. Clear production failures come into direct blame, as for example, we hear a saxophone lead a trio of horns through the album's third track American Idol thus butchering what was perhaps once an interesting song. Ultimately, the material speaks for itself, but it is even worse when the production can't even help your songs sound better.
La La Land is overall listenable, but you may simply want to skip it and go back to Parc Avenue, and pretend this new one never existed. Perhaps two years of intense touring has sucked the creative juice out of the Montreal trio, leaving La La Land sounding like a forced collection of mediocre tracks.
La La Land is out April 20th on Secret City Records
MP3: Plants and Animals - The Mama Papa
After the first piece, Tom Cruz, the album seems to progressively get more and more uninteresting and all too familiar sounding. Clear production failures come into direct blame, as for example, we hear a saxophone lead a trio of horns through the album's third track American Idol thus butchering what was perhaps once an interesting song. Ultimately, the material speaks for itself, but it is even worse when the production can't even help your songs sound better.
La La Land is overall listenable, but you may simply want to skip it and go back to Parc Avenue, and pretend this new one never existed. Perhaps two years of intense touring has sucked the creative juice out of the Montreal trio, leaving La La Land sounding like a forced collection of mediocre tracks.
La La Land is out April 20th on Secret City Records
MP3: Plants and Animals - The Mama Papa
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