Edwood
Like A Movement

Sometimes you find, in music magazine compilations, those songs that get stuck in your head from the very first listen; fascinated and excited, you then search for more information about the band. And once you find it, you buy their album blindly, solely based on that one song. Well... it happened to me with "Softcore" by Edwood and their album "Like a Movement".

Listening to the first songs of the album, it immediately comes to mind how their sound is damnably comparable to that of the well-established Yuppie Flu, leaving little room for amazement for the listener. But if, for you, like for me, this is a "marginal" detail and somewhat negligible, then you can easily continue listening to the album. The songs sound melodic, pop, a sophisticated and ethereal pop, where the sonic carpet formed by guitar, bass, and drums is complemented by synths and electronic interventions, thus creating a well-balanced sound where each instrument plays its part without overdoing it. The same balance is then found in the vocals and the lyrics of the songs: "I'm flower blooming / in a silver fields / catching a bee like you / i'm skinning your bloody lips". In a couple of tracks like "Good Face" and "In the Morning", we notice a certain urgency in the rhythm, while in the song "Post-rock" and the concluding "Sunday", Edwood ventures into more unique pieces, with an instrumental crescendo typical of post-rock. Unfortunately, there are also songs that seem to have come out of the latest works of the aforementioned Yuppie Flu and from that typical indie-pop genre, "Music Part Two" and "On a View" to name a couple.

A good debut and a nice album therefore, but one which we hope will be followed by a work of greater substance and with a more defined identity.