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MoneybrotherTo Die Alone Burning Heart/Shock 'To Die Alone' starts off with a bomb of a track in They're Building Walls Around Us, a late seventies homage with falsetto vocals and a wall of keyboards and strings that become the signature for the rest of the record; and it's fully danceable too. The opening track is followed by the touching It Ain't Gonna Work, a piano ballad that has just as much retro feel but you can tell that, unlike other people, Swedish songwriter Anders Wendin takes it all quite seriously. Or at least, he's done a good job of fooling me. The theme is that timeless one of love unrequited and lost. Wendin seamlessly covers a variety of styles that reference the likes of Fleetwood Mac, Thin Lizzy and even KC & The Sunshine Band. It's probably been hard for Wendin to not get too carried away, but he's managed to pull off authentically retro sounds without becoming too obvious a parody (cf: The Scissor Sisters, The Darkness). Witness the case of My Lil' Girl's Straight From Heaven, which features a guitar riff ripped straight from Brian May's hands, but yet straight away you'll forget that it's 2005 and want to start shaking your booty.  |
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