Review by: Irfan Hidayatullah
Album Assigned by: Dina Levina
This is a weird, weird album (or at least kinda weird-sounding--for a pop album, that is). I have never subjected myself to more than one listen, but here goes my thoughts anyway.
The band did certainly make their way to make this album sound interesting, different, or whatever it is--there’s an unconventional chord changes here and there, there’s a crazy sounding keyboard/synthesizers, and the singer guy sings in a rather unconventional way, adopting a slightly vaudevillian (?) attitude. The band also insert a hook for every now and then--they certainly know how to draw the listener’s attention. There’s an attempt to diversify their songs too--unfortunately, in the end the album still does nothing for me. For the starter, the album feels deadly long--even though it clocks at 48 minutes in 14 songs, it feels like it should have been shorter. Maybe that’s because the lack of fresh musical ideas. (At sixth songs or so, I feel enough already, even though I’m getting used to their sound). The lack of musical ideas also means that in the end you’ll have a hard time distinguishing the songs, although the first six songs are quite, uh, tolerable.
Of course, the impression might be improved on subsequent listens.
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