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Album Name: Turning Point
Artist: Side FX
Year/Label: 2010 / Realize Records
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Review by Anna Maria Stjärnell
I’ve reviewed Side Fx’s previous album recently, and am pleased that their new offering is just as good. Kim Cameron’s in fine voice and the band support her well.
Are You Thinking of Me? sees her sounding both vulnerable and tough as the band play a rockin’ backing. Her assertiveness as a frontperson is very sympathetic and easy to hear.
Stories is a soft, yet urgent tune that allows Cameron’s vocals to shine. The guitar parts by Marco Delmar are sensitively played. It’s a neat jazzy tune that appeals greatly.
Rainy Days and Mondays is a Carpenters cover that works really well and shows the band’s playful side. Cameron adopts a kittenish coo that really works for the song.
It’s Not My Time is an atmospheric, slightly mystical song that they do really well.
It’s another great album by Side FX.
Track Listing
1. Timeless
2. Are You Thinking of Me
3. Magic Lands
4. Stories
5. Simple Touch
6. Rainy Days and Mondays
7. Let’s Paint This Town
8. Amazing Dreams
9. It’s Not My Time
10. Broken Heart
11. Contradictions
12. Stories (dance)
13. Are You Thinking of Me (country)
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Album Name: Cardiac Malformations
Artist: Thus:Owls
Year/Label: 2010 / Hoob Records
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Review by Anna Maria Stjärnell
Thus:Owls have a weird name, and a sound to match on this starling debut recording. It has something of the Tiny’s classicism tempered by Björk’s restless spirit.
Singer Erika Alexandersson has a terrific, if untamable voice and she uses it well.
Opener Yellow Desert sees her reach untold heights to a good backdrop that’s ever shifting. Her delivery has a little of Karin Dreijer Andersson’s strangeness.
Climbing the Fjelds of Norway has a playful; intriguing sound that suits the song well. Alexandersson’s vocals sound just beautiful here.
The Sun is Burning Our Skin is a ballad that allows the band’s sensitive side to take over. The vocal is set against a soft and supple backing.
A Volcano in My Chest is a little bit dissonant at times but has a good tune to go along with it. Alexandersson wails in a P.J Harvey fashion and it’s fun to hear.
This debut should hopefully win them many fans.
Track Listing
1. Yellow Desert
2. Eagles Coming In
3. Climbing The Fjelds Of Norway
4. Sometimes
5. The Sun Is Burning Our Skin
6. When She Arrived
7. Let Your Blood Run
8. My Thoughts Ain’t Lovely
9. A Volcano In My Chest
10. You Arose To The Gods
11. The Atlantic
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