Sophia
People Are Like Seasons

THE REVIEW

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...).