Wednesday, August 21, 2013

SPOTIFY REVIEW: Nightmare Air "High In the Lasers" (Saint Marie Records)


            What I like about this album from Nightmare Air is that it has the quality of being almost two different bands, in the sense that it has a split personality, yet it flows so smoothly that you wouldn’t even notice the change—it doesn’t sound like two different bands and rightfully so.

            We begin with female vocals and some dream pop type of music, which in all obviousness comes out a bit like Metric or a band along those lines.  That’s completely fine by me, as the entirety of these songs could have followed suit and made me just as happy.

            Slowly but surely though, you can sense the male vocals coming through until the second half or so of the album where they just completely take over.   This is most apparent on track 7, “Eyes”, which reminds me a bit of Jane’s Addiction.


             Now if you made a CD of nine songs that sounded like Metric, turned into Jane’s Addiction and then brought it all back home to the beginning again on the last song, you’d probably be able to tell that there were two separate bands being mixed together.   That is the brilliance and beauty of Nightmare Air—that they can do this (much better than I can ever write about it) so seamlessly.   

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