This is a wonderful album - a logical progression from Breathe, and containing several songs which stick in your head for weeks.
Shakma and The Angela Test have been available as iTunes downloads for some time before the album came out, and these are two significant highlights of the album. The final track "Should have seen it all" is also a wonderful song, very long and with a haunting, mysterious quality. Leaves seem to really have got the knack of putting together catchy songs where the instruments come in in layers. Having seen Leaves live recently, I can say that they are as good live as in the studio, which is often not the case. They can sing in tune, play instruments well - I recommend this album unreservedly.
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Leaves must be wondering what they are doing wrong. After "Breathe" - an absolute scorcher of a debut album, they've brought out this, "The Angela Test", which, frankly is one of my top 3 favourite albums of all time. That's how much I can recommend this record.
Fans of Coldplay, Radiohead, Blur, Doves, Snow Patrol - or indeed any of the above? Buy this album. You won't be disappointed.
I only hope that Leaves see this as enough of a commercial success to bring out a 3rd album. Or I fear I won't have anything to look forward to in the musical calendar.
So, summing up, this review is not as much a gentle recommendation, but this of it more as a gun-in-your-face-buy-this-or-else kind of thing.
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Leaves must be wondering what they are doing wrong. After "Breathe" - an absolute scorcher of a debut album, they've brought out this, "The Angela Test", which, frankly is one of my top 3 favourite albums of all time. That's how much I can recommend this record.
Fans of Coldplay, Radiohead, Blur, Doves, Snow Patrol - or indeed any of the above? Buy this album. You won't be disappointed.
I only hope that Leaves see this as enough of a commercial success to bring out a 3rd album. Or I fear I won't have anything to look forward to in the musical calendar.
So, summing up, this review is not as much a gentle recommendation, but this of it more as a gun-in-your-face-buy-this-or-else kind of thing.
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