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Rating:
Changeable.
People are like seasons: they change constantly.
If you listen to this album in your room, an avalanche of dried autumn leaves will cover you up to the tip of your ears.
The latest work by Sophia comes in a cardboard package that matches the elegant content of the album.
People Are Like Seasons is a work with many merits and some flaws.
The songs alternate between extremely dark moments and others (few, to be honest) that are sunny and rockish.
The ballads persistently mix the early works of Neil Young (Harvest as a reference point) with Jeff Buckley.
To this, something more pop-like of a British brand is added, like the Starsailor of Love Is Here, in the way they play piano and acoustic guitar.
The "easier" songs, the more melodic ones, with the strummed guitar in the forefront (Holidays Are Nice) and the more rock’n’roll ones (If A Change Is Gonna Come), bear a frightening resemblance to the Nada Surf of Let Go.
Meanwhile, where rock becomes more electronic, the resulting product leads directly to the latest Kent albums.
Swept Back vastly plagiarizes, in the melody played by piano and guitar, a song by Biagio Antonacci (I believe, or rather, hope, it’s just a mundane coincidence).
The single, Oh My Love, a pop-rock song accessible to all, as often happens, does not do justice to the album, which is slightly more nuanced, overall a truly well-produced work that surely deserves more success than that recently achieved by truly despicable bands.
Nuanced doesn't necessarily mean complex; in fact, this is not a difficult album... but, for some things, it's heavy.
And here we get to the flaws, because, as just said, it’s not exactly what you need to start your day off on a cheerful note. Plus, the singer's voice has nothing special, in fact, it’s really common and doesn’t do anything amazing... in short, it ends up being boring.
The album is good, but I believe that after a few listens many of you will move on to something else, forgetting it for a while (to then rediscover, in a couple of months, again how beautiful it is and so on...).
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Oh My Love (04:32)
I thought I knew ya
But I guess I was wrong
You only see the things you convinced yourself you saw
But like you said I guess ya
Maybe I'm blind
Well why don't you open your eyes
You might like what you find
Chorus:
'Cause I been waiting
For such a long time
Your love is still
Fresh in my mind
And oh my love though I wait
Can't you see
I can't wait forever for you to say you love me
I thought I knew ya
But I guess I was wrong
You only see the things you convinced yourself you saw
But like you said I guess ya
Maybe I'm blind
Well why don't you open your eyes
You might like what you find
Chorus
And oh my love
Though I wait
Can't you see
I can't wait forever for you to say you love me
Chorus
And oh my love
Though I wait
Can't you see
I can't wait forever for you to say you love me
And oh my love
Though I wait
Can't you see
I can't wait forever for you to say you love me
02 Swept Back (04:49)
You're wet around the edge
Tired of swimming upstream
You thought you'd just rest a while
But you were still swept back to me
Swept back to me
Swept back to all the grief and the worry
Swept back
Swept back
But I know you don't deserve to be broken
So just focus on the light
Focus on the light
Well we push and we pull
But still at least we never feel empty
And can't we just pretend
That I'm an island in your sea
Let's give in before we're swept
05 Darkness (Another Shade in Your Black) (04:11)
Your obsession with death fascinates me
Wet my head in your poison stream
Weigh me down with your ideas of the infinite
And I will drown
I will drown in your
I will drown in your
I will drown in your poison stream
Your obsession with death fascinates me
Wet my head in your poison stream
Weigh me down with your idea of the infinite
And I will drown
You said you're attracted to the darkness
Well baby, that's okay by me
I'll just be another shade in your black
I will drown in your poison stream
You said you're attracted to the darkness
You said you're attracted to the darkness
You said you're attracted to the darkness
Well baby that's ok by me
I'll just be another shade in your black
I'll just be another shade in your black
I'll just be another shade in your black
I'll just be another shade in your black
08 Holidays Are Nice (03:29)
Holidays are nice
Holidays are fun
Holidays are wonderful
If you're the one
That's leaving on an airplane
Sitting on a train
or just wasting time
Watching the clouds take shape
And God I wish that I was running
Somewhere with you today
Everything's lovely
Yeah everything's fine
I've got more than I need most of the time
But still something seems missing
Like there's a crack inside
If we could just get away
And leave what divides us behind
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