Brothers in harmony Ansii and Henri Vaxby divide their time between London and Helsinki, locations which have prompted their band's music to be horrendously labelled as "Scandi-Indie".
Henri claims they are moving away from a retro sound on this record but you could have fooled me.
The songs would have sounded contemporary about 40 years ago but now just seems horribly dated. For the most part it is inoffensive soft rock, albeit with a decidely wimpish nature, although they also dabble with some Jim Reeves-ish country on Gone Are Those Days-
The key tracks are I Can't Dance Without Your Beat and
She's Taking The High Road but both are faint-hearted attempts to rock out.
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Lyrically, there's nothing that hints at any real emotionally connection with the words they are singing. The songs are replete with empty metaphors, several on a nautical theme, with more than a few cringeworthy lines such as "I spent last night chasing rainbows in the grave" on Equal Amounts (Of Guilt And Peace).
"it's fun because it's fun" says Ansii Vaxby in a promotional video for the album but I suspect most listeners will be inclined to ask 'in what way exactly?'
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