First reviews are beginning to trickle in for The Sounds latest project. Crossing the Rubicon is the third studio album from The Sounds, dropping June 2nd. Check out the review from Filter Magazine. First Impressions: The Sounds, Crossing the Rubicon
by Staff | 04.02.2009
The Sounds
Crossing the Rubicon
Original Signal Recordings
Release Date: 6/2
Tracklisting:
1. No One Sleeps When I’m Awake
2. 4 Songs and a Fight
3. My Lover
4. Dorchester Hotel
5. Beatbox
6. Underground
7. Crossing the Rubicon
8. Midnight Sun
9. Lost In Love
10. The Only Ones
11. Home Is Where Your Heart Is
12. Goodnight Freddy
First Impressions:
- This, the third album from Swedish quintet The Sounds, is undeniably catchy with female vocals, tons of upbeat electronic flourishes, dance beats, and just enough New Wave-inspired cheese to make things really fun.
- “Beatbox” is practically tailor-made for a 1980s film montage of people working out really hard. Think ice-skating classic The Cutting Edge – legwarmers, high-fives and lots of sweat backed by pulsating synth, programmed handclaps and lyrics that ask, “Tell me do you feel it?”
- The Sounds turn things around with “The Only Ones,” a song that abandons the dance-pop of the nine previous tracks for what is instead a piano-driven rock ballad.
- “Home Is Where Your Heart Is” features sentiments that will come off sappy and Disney-esque to the cynics out there (“You gotta rise to the occasion/You gotta read between the lines/Then maybe you’ll find who you are inside”), but others may find it innocently refreshing and uplifting.
Key Tracks:
“4 Songs and a Fight,” “Midnight Sun,” “The Only Ones”
Predictions:
Audiences who like to dance and don’t take things too seriously will enjoy blasting The Sounds’ latest. It’s a sunny-day record if there ever was one, and it’ll certainly induce a few shakes of the booty. But the overly-cheery synthesizers can quickly get old, making this an album to be heard in moderation, unless you just really loved the '80s.
Links:
The Sounds’ Official Website: http://www.the-sounds.com
The Sounds’ Official MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/thesounds
Source: Filter Magazine
Photo: Megan Westerby
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