This album is gorgeous. If you haven’t got/heard this album yet, I just wanted to make sure you got the same impression from this review as you would on hearing it the first time.
This is the debut album from Swedish band Gentle Touch. These three young guys released an EP back in ‘06 which led to this, their first full length album. And what a thing is it.
Such gentle vocals, softly sung with hints of sadness. Every song is catchy and stands strongly on its own, which makes it a thoroughly amazing piece from beginning to end. Synthpop is still strong (luckily for us) but this album almost sounds like it has just been de-frosted from a mid-eighties time capsule, and released without haste. “Expectations” supports this theory I dreamed up perfectly. It makes you want to dance and sing along to those echoey vocals to the point you have to keep telling yourself that you’re in public and such things aren’t generally considered appropriate outside of the “home”.
Drum machines, plenty of synth and some perfectly implemented guitars on some tracks, this fresh-faced group from Sweden has that evasive secret formula to be huge. From songs that could have been #1 on the charts for week and had every teen bopping in every club in the 80’s, to beautiful gentle songs that really do move you, such as “The Finer Arts”, this is a gem.
If you only buy one album before you die, buy this. If you die before you have chance, I would highly recommend coming back as a spirit and buying it, because it’s really that worth it!
http://www.myspace.com/gentletouchmusic
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