"An Awesome Wave" includes an alternative, smart structured, harmonious pop sound. Add to this the very variable vocal performance of the front singer: sometimes rough, sometimes choral or playful, always fragile. A high-falsetto men may not like every straight away, but I find it in any song overexcited or annoying. It contributes greatly help to give its own special touch to the band.
The instruments are largely "naturally" and form through innovative use beautiful and exciting levels. Here and there brilliant synths, glasses, piano or bells - in the last great song "Taro" even Banghra sounds. All songs are rather mid-tempo range, but are still spirited. This is thanks to the perfect Drums and drums that produce often really good beats.
The songs cover as well as from any emotion, there is joy and euphoria ("Breeze Block", "Dissolve Me"), pensiveness ("Tesselate") and plenty of melancholy ("Matilda", "Something Good"). Between the songs there are 3 short interludes, a great many voices Acapella, a guitar solo and a piano solo. High falls hardly a song from the series, overall a very mature and adult sound for a debut album.
I liken reluctant bands, but fans of Wild Beasts or Active Child will be safe with the band quickly warm. The band biography himself calls the sound "folk-step ', which I find quite appropriate.
The packaging of the album is also interesting to note the CD stretches in the open Digipaks from a kind origami folding out.
It is an 'awesome wave' - Check it!
