So I'm very positively indeed not about what to think of the Mighty Oaks. This penetrant abgefeierte Naturburschen image with check shirt and lace-up! Matching the dreamy lens-flarigen nature photos in the booklet! This "three-friends-shall-be-it" -Getue in the videos! The slog through all even vaguely relevant TV shows ... Somehow there already badly much marketing hype to be in the game in order again to milk the cow Neofolk properly. (What seems to be working well.) On the other hand: the guys are really nice, the international composition of the Berlin-based trio has charm, and above all, like the music. Sure, an innovation award will win the Mighty Oaks neither for their folk-country-pop sound even for her songwriting. But what they do, they do well: catchy, sometimes trivial, but always pleasing Country Folk with predominantly acoustic arrangements and held very skillfully inserted harmony vocals. Mumford & Sons in less bumpy - basically the perfect sound for balmy summer evenings. And yes, in some moments the music of Mighty Oaks is just cry beautiful. "Just One Day" for example (and in turn the part from minute 2'00, who wants to know exactly;) ...) - my personal cult song of the season. If a band can do that, that's not a little, and the question of whether there just the PR department of Universal has made NEN good job, takes a back seat. The complete album is bored neither the conscious listening yet it bothers when hearing the way - and it has to just 40 minutes, a near-perfect album length. A pity, however, that the great did not make it "The Great Northwest" of the "Just One Day" EP in "Howl". What remains of the hype, only time will tell. Perhaps the Mighty Oaks are their sound can evolve so that it lasts for a longer career. Otherwise they might also just as quickly away as they came. Either way, a nice album for Always Goodbye we definitely before.
