33 year old former music snob who struggles to stay current. come across this band and they're great. this album and the first both are really enjoyable. lots of multi part harmonies and interlocking guitars
5つ星のうち5.0Only Getting Better, But How Will They Perfect Perfection?
2013年5月4日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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Veronica Falls is a band that continues to amaze. They meld a sinister pop smattering of girl group spector-ish songcraft with the more melodic strains of the shoegaze age. The added bonus is that the album plays as an album. No filler - no reason to skip around to find the songs you like - all songs fit into the band's realization of the album as a whole. I could begin listing the best songs, but my favorites shift to the day and my mood because the album is THAT good. Buy it now, you won't regret it - if you love Pains of Being Pure at Heart and similar bands THIS is the necessary album for you to own in 2013.
I absolutely love this fine second album by London indie-pop quartet Veronica Falls.
As other reviewers have noted, Veronica Falls take their cue from the jangly indie-pop (aka "C86") sound of the mid-1980s. But like most good bands, Veronica Falls combine an existing formula with orginal elements to produce a distinctive sound of their own.
For one thing Veronica Falls have a The-Mammas-and-the-Papas boys-and-girl vocal harmonies thing going on which (because they all have really nice voices!) is very melodic and listenable.
Yet they also give the sweet-and-catchy indie-pop genre something of a dark and melancholic Gothic hue. Talulah Gosh meets the Sisters of Mercy!
Their debut album was very impressive and if anything I like this follow-up even more. It seems just a tad more polished and mature.
The main thing is that the songs are really very catchy. I found several of them worming around my head all day long after just a couple of listens. I particularly love Teenage, Shooting Star, If You Still Want Me... oh heck, I love all the songs!
I find that a lot of bands who produce a great debut album inevitably disappoint a bit on their second album. Not Veronica Falls, who seem instead to be going from strength to strength.
Après la franche réussite de "Veronica Falls", le petit groupe fétiche de tous les férus d'Indie Pop intelligente revient avec son "difficile second album", et provoque l'habituel débat : est-ce que "Waiting For Something To Happen" est la même chose en moins bien, ou est-ce une évolution rassurante par rapport au premier album ? Ne tranchons pas, c'est inutile, tant il est déjà clair que Veronica Falls est très probablement le groupe d'un style unique, d'une idée qui sera ressassée et raffinée encore et encore au fil de sa carrière, une carrière que l'on espère longue tant le plaisir que l'on prend à écouter les disques est réel. Simple, certes, mais réel. On trouvera dans "Waiting For Something To Happen" une autre poignée de superbes morceaux concis, efficaces, générant une sorte de joie lumineuse, même si (ou peut-être parce que...) l'ambiance générale est doucement mélancolique. Le son est peut-être un peu meilleur, certes, mais le disque faiblit plus nettement dans sa deuxième partie. Et manque cruellement d'une ou deux chansons véritablement irrésistibles, qui hisseraient Veronica Falls au dessus du simple succès d'estime. Peu importe, après tout, fans du Velvet (celui du troisième album, et de "1969") et des Feelies bucoliques, nostalgique des Bats ou de tant d'autres groupes "pop ligne claire", ce disque est pour vous, et il figurera en bonne place dans cotre palmarès de 2013.
machen wir's kurz: das teil ist richtig gut! wem die erste platte gefallen hat, wird diese mindestens genau so gerne hören. schön auch, dass die single "my heart beats" drauf ist.