Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing
Continuing my 5 reviews in a week goal, here’s another FUN album.
Start listening to the album you’ll probably see why these guys love skinny jeans, bandanas, sleeveless t-shirts, and bright sunlight. Produced by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, this album contains addicting guitar riffs, rebellious yet hopeful lyrics, and joyful chorus. The band is goes incredibly simple with their structure on this album: some poppy guitar riff here, lyrics about having endless fun there. Yet, this album knows how to have fun.
The best example is on ‘Bang Pop’. Anthemic beats, 60’s classic rock guitar crunches, lyrics about dancing through the night, and completed by entirely innocent and catchy chorus of “BANG (bang!)! POP (pop)!/ When does the searching stop?” This can be almost compared to last year’s pop masterpiece, Phoenix’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. The best charm of Phoenix’s album was that they make pop music look incredibly EASY: acting completely cool with their image, singing about things that never really makes sense, and bringing all-kinds of fun into their album. Free Energy’s debut album has it all that Phoenix could do. Solid collection of 10 songs that is incredibly catchy, fist-pumping, and could potentially be THE anthem of a fun-filled summer.
There are some flaws to this album, as sometimes the sound can get repetitive in each song, but they clutch your attention from beginning to the end. That’s what’s so powerful about this album. Fun, joy, and sun; these are the ingredients Free Energy’s new album. I still jump up-and-down like a little kid for the build-up in ‘Dark Trance’.
- Taewook Lucas Kang. Помічник директора музики. (The BLOCK! 5-8PM Friday)
