Just stumbled across this band from Sweden, who offer an interesting take on the darker side of 90s alternative rock. There is some post-punk influence, but bands like Ours and Placebo seem just as crucial to these guys' DNA. The vocals go down a more sullen self-loathing, but still in the warbling tenor that introduced their sound from the start. He goes up into a falsetto that has more in common with Matt Bellamy from Muse. There is a more dramatic sense of haunting motion driving the pulse of "Ghost Town."
A jangling guitar creates the hypnotic drone of "Underlandet". "Oath" is the single from this album, and it moves more like a Cure song than what we have heard on this album so far. The way the vocals emote reminds me a little of Harley Poe. There is more drive to the clanging guitar of the title track, which works well against he urgency exuded in the vocals. There has been a woozy shoegaze quality to the vocals, and this happens to hit more undeniably for "Psykosoma". I really like the darkly melodic "I have my faith' which carries a steamy simmer with it.
"But lose my way" feels more like the intro to the more sonically complex "Where Have You Been" than a free-standing song. They are not far removed from the sonic zip code of the Twilight Sad, though they journey into different emotional places, perhaps less depressed than the Twilight Sad. I will give this album a 9.5, as it's melancholy and dynamic in the ways I love music, taking familiar sounds and making them their own.
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