Artist: Seahaven
Album: Reverie Lagoon: Music For Escapism Only
Source: https://soundcloud.com/tom-rfc/sets/seahaven-reverie-lagoon-music
Pre-listening Notes: This is the first band that I am reviewing twice. First off, the EP that came out a couple months ago got a 5.5 out of me, so I am not going into this with a ton of high expectations. Second, I hate the name of the album. Third, I have already seen comparisons to Brand New's God and the Devil are Raging Inside Me, so people are already putting this on an uphill climb to truly be appreciated. So, yeah...low expectations for me, but high for a lot of people.
Initial Reaction: It opens with a pretty mellow, minimal guitar and vocals. I think this is just a super low key intro. Let's hope they kick up the tempo a bit.
Random Thoughts: The second song, Andreas picks up the pace a little. The singer's voice doesn't give me a ton of hope for this. It's a little too nasally for me. I think I compared the guy's voice to the singer of Coldplay the first go around. This is doing nothing to change that opinion for me. This has a very radio friendly vibe to it, I remember this song from the EP, the second time through doesn't endear it more to me, but I found myself remembering the pattern of the song a little. I just wish this had a little more bite to it, the songs are very tame. Finally halfway through the album I get a song that I kind of enjoy. The song is Flesh, so far, it's really the only one that has hit me.
Final Reaction: This is just way too mellow and kind of boring for me. I can see this going over huge, though, with the masses. Every time I was hoping this would kick up into a higher gear, it just kind of slowly meandered down the path of slow and dull. I wouldn't tell anyone to not listen to this based on my recommendation here, because this review is definitely more based on my personal tastes than their ability to make music and write songs here. This just really doesn't do a lot for me and by the sixth song or so, I was just kind of tuning things out.
Final Grade: 4.5/10
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