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"Brighter Than Sunshine", the current single, starts the ten track feast for your ears. Your winter blues will be banished as you bask in this triumphantly uplifting anthem.
Although Still Life never quite reaches such dizzy heights again, the remaining songs are still better than your average album fodder. Another high is reached with "7 Keys" as its trombone bass-line swoop in and out of the track.
A wide range of instrumentation is employed ranging from the regular strings to the more exotic harpsichord and the downright bizarre 'frog' and 'bowls'. However this wide assortment is blended together so seamlessly you'll hardly notice they're all there.
It would be no surprise to find Coldplay, Radiohead and U2 amongst singer Matt Hale's music collection. His voice is often reminiscent of Thom Yorke's and the general Aqualung mood is very similar to that of the Oxford quartet. On the other hand the intro to "Listen Again" is a dead ringer to the start of Coldplay's "Politik", whereas tracks such as "Take Me Home" put me more in mind of U2's more introspective moments.
By the end of the album the down-beat tempo can become rather dirgeful but if you're rejoicing in the fact that cannabis has been downgraded you'll probably appreciate Still Life all the more.
Aqualung became successful after "Strange And Beautiful (I'll Put A Spell On You)" was used in a car advert. It wouldn't be a surprise or a shame if we found any more of their tracks appearing in such commercial breaks. Whatever it takes to spread the word and spread some aural happiness! --Niky Daley
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'Brighter Than Sunshine' is the perfect opener, a great pop song which has a great chorus and extemely uplifting. 'Left Behind' is perhaps the loudest part of the album and its here where you begin to see the diversity on offer. Matt sings the chorus here very passionately and its a song which develops to a mid-pace rock out. 'You Turn Me Around' and 'Easier To Lie' are next up, and in my view the best two tracks on the album. You Turn Me Around brings the sound back to a softer tone and features quite possibly the best lyrics on the enitre record. It's a beautiful, powerful piano led song and needs to be heard to be beleived. Easier To Lie however will lift you back up, it has a wonderful sweeping chorus and melody that just has the ability to make you feel good. '7 Keys' and 'Breaking My Heart Again' are the other stand out tracks and see the tone return once more to where Aqualung feel most at home. The rest of the songs are by no means average, but perhaps slightly lacking in quality to grab you like the others mentioned above.
I gave this 5 stars because its an album which will certainly have you coming back time and again. Also, in my opinion, it's a record in which Matt Hales has successfully moved Aqualung forward in their search for new ideas. It's their creativity and ability to use a range of different sounds successfully which makes this essential listening for music fans who like blissful, easy listening piano led melodies. It still sounds like much of their earlier stuff, but its much glossier, and full marks to them for not resting on their laurels and honing their sound. This ain't far off perfection.
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