Soundtrack
Of Our Lives – Behind The Music
Best Rock Album
The following was originally published in our Review section.
Review by antiGUY
Sweden's Soundtrack of Our Lives returns
with their third full length album that follows in the psychedelic rock
tradition of their previous work but presents things a bit more straightforward
manner.
The surprising thing is despite using a
60’s rock formula this band sounds remarkable modern, as if this is what
modern rock should sounds like. The songs feature interesting layers of
instrumentation while the vocals carry the day melodically. They start
out very strong with the driving “Infra Riot” and things only better when
they getting the drum heavy second track “Sister Surround”. Another standout
track, “Mind the Gap,” echoes a bit of Derek and the Domino’s and the more
melodic moments of Cream. “Broken Imaginary Time” is a trippy ballad that
would fit perfectly on the Moody Blues’ “To Our Children's Children's Children”.
“21st Century Rip Off” has a T Rex meets The Stooges vibe, in fact is sounds
exactly like something Marc Boland would have written and it’s very reminiscent
of “20th Century Box”. The group’s mix of psychedelic electric guitars
and acoustic guitars on several tracks give the songs a crispness and really
emphasis the multi-layered sound, a sound that would make Phil Spector
proud!
Soundtrack of Our Lives is more consistent
on this album sonically than their previous two efforts and the songs manage
to convey a feeling of taking the late sixties era Stones and Pink Floyd
and transplanting them in 2002 as they capture the essence of the era gone
past yet at the same time the music doesn’t sound dated.
Fans of the “Welcome to the Infant Freebase”
and “Extended Revelation for the Psychic Weaklings of Western Civilization”
albums should be pleased with this album. For those who never heard Soundtrack
of our Lives but like the psychedelic rock sound of the 60’s or even the
modern psychedelic power-pop feel of BRMC should welcome Soundtrack of
our Lives with open arms. While the music might be a bit to abstract and
complex for the mainstream, this album should have no problems finding
an audience with astute fans of rock. Then again Republic has a lot of
muscle and if any label can carry this music to a mainstream audience they
can. The music is certain worthy of wide praise but again it might simply
be too good for the masses that usually opt for more simplistic hook-heavy
and inane music of today’s pop world. Nevertheless, Soundtracks of our
Lives are to be commended for creating another exception rock album in
an era where such albums are few and far between.
CD Info
Soundtrack
Of Our Lives – Behind The Music
Label: Republic
/ Universal
Rating: 
Tracks:
Infra Riot
Sister Surround
In Someone Else's Mind
Mind The Gap
Broken Imaginary Time
21st Century Rip Off
Tonight
Keep The Line Movin'
Nevermore
Independent Luxury
Ten Years Ahead
Still Aging
In Your Veins
The Flood
Into The Next Sun |
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