thelostpatrol wrote:
1. The weakest track vocally is Pale Traces, because Marcela Bovio does not distinguish herself enough.
I thought the first time I heard it, that Marcela didn't sound as good as I'd previously heard from her. But then after that it grew on me, and I really like her vocals/this track now.
thelostpatrol wrote:
2. The strongest track vocally is Capital of Nowhere. Anne van den Hoogen shows us that the band can go with a different vocal style and still retain a specific feeling.
This is my least favourite vocally, I guess she's a bit poppy, or as someone else said "childlike", for me. Still a nice song though.
thelostpatrol wrote:
3. Silje Wergeland does a good job on this album. I like her as a singer. However, her "heavy" voice is better than her "soft" voice I think.
Silje is great! Maybe we'll hear more of her heavy voice on the next album.
thelostpatrol wrote:
4. None of these girls sound like Anneke so I'm not even going to bother comparing who's better. They're all pretty different, in fact.
Hehe, I can hear some similarities in all three. I could even hear Anneke singing Capital of Nowhere with her higher, brighter tones that she uses sometimes.
thelostpatrol wrote:
5. I like the guitar oriented sound on this record. Maybe for the next one we could see the band pick up the pace further though? After Souvenirs and Home I'm a bit tired of slow TG material. I like the faster tracks on this album but it could have used more of them.
That's funny, because this is probably the most uptempo album they've done. Half of it (beginning and end - 1, 2 ,3 and 9, 10) are midtempo or faster, leaving the middle for the slow tracks.
Well, I seemed to disagree with you on almost all points
My favourites are Treasure, All You Are and The West Pole. All fantastic, not sure after that, some are still growing on me, probably No Bird Call especially the end part and Pale Traces which builds really well, the strings are great, I first thought no way does this song need to be nearly 8 mins but now I think it does
The one I think doesn't need to be that long is A Constant Run, with the extended outro. I find those sort of things a bit pointless, same with When Trust Becomes Sound, no doubt most people here will disagree with me on that.