Word: balladic
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With their three singers, Gomez have a penchant for vocal harmonies that few bands have indulged since the Beatles (who Gomez covered sublimely on Trolley). On the title track, a ballad which comes as close as Gomez get to brooding, Ball’s warm, breathy voice gets overlaid with harmonies until it’s hard to tell who’s singing the lead...
...electronic mischief, there are a couple of toe-curlingly beautiful tracks, “Even Song” and “Miles End,” courtesy of Ben Ottewell and his luscious bubblebath of a voice. The album wraps up in style with the “Ballad of Nice and Easy,” a rollicking track featuring all three vocalists, and the classic Gomez line, “Sooner or later there’s an end to this candle/ We’ll burn it at both ends and then switch on the light...
Taking this less frantic idea even further, “The State We’re In” is a slow, sad electronic ballad. Who would have thought such a song possible from the kings of the frantic, distorted electric beat? That idea is still present though, permeating the background, and at the end of the song it takes over. Feel the need to bounce...
...group rehashes Eagle Eye Cherry without any audible emotion, then something is seriously wrong. Nor is the singing of the sort that plumbs any emotional depths. In “Lonely Days,” over-produced guitar licks dilute the vocals of what might have been the starkest ballad. The prominence of the guitar makes Dakota Moon unique, but rarely does it work. In “Release Me” the simple chords do complement the singers well, but in effect the song degenerates into a pop ballad...
...album’s melodramatic title and the group’s troubled past, Lost Souls is a nuanced album that does not fall into the irritating whining of misery-rock. The wispy guitars and vocals play games with each other in the seven-and-a-half minute ballad “Cedar Room.” “The Man Who Told Everything” seems to stand for the group’s naked honesty about its experiences, while also reflecting the band’s confidence that there are “blue skies ahead...