It's Love Again!

Shy Child releases yet another album (I say unromantically) entitled Liquid Love. For a music listener who almost daily indulges with Drop the Phone in the speakers, the new album was a definite must.

It is rare to encounter such an album like Liquid Love. It is an album that gets better by the track. And that clearly ascends to a valuable musicality and even artistic maturity. Above all it is quite pleasing to discover that the playfulness of the previous Shy Child work has beautifully toned down. The sound and even the voice are clearer, sharper and instead of a messy crowdedness of sounds you get a tempered complexity.

The beginning of the album is very promising, a superb and catchy Liquid Love. Then passing in a single pace through Disconnected and Take Us Apart, that add the feeling of a soundtrack for the grooviest dance floor chart of the 80’s. But surprisingly the songs do not give any feeling of detachment or strangeness from the rest of the album. As for Criss Cross, the song re-gathers some of Liquid Love’s maturity and catchiness.

Yes, there is a song called The Beatles. A groovy song that blends suavely into the album’s thematic. But from now on things get heavier, even better. Open Up The Sky is mesmerizing in its instrumental simplicity and the voice makes a magic ado. If the next song Esp fits the musical edginess, then Depth Of Feel is the actual amazing edge. As for the last tracks, Strange Emotion continues the elevated standard and Dark Destiny draws the line effectively. Great tracks with proper Shy Child instrumental touches.

If previously I mentioned the unromantically attribute to the album’s title it was to not ridicule the sappy lyrics. Not much change there but the lyrics fit, so not that big of a problem. Top to bottom the entire album is a good survey of songs that celebrate, to sort of speak, the electric piano, the band’s signature instrument. Fear not, the drum is at its merit place, if not sharing then adding its effect to the instrumental. Nevertheless the album is a clear improvement for Shy Child.

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