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<<The first album was created very calmly in a year; it was born independently with a lot of relaxation, without knowing if it would be released and especially whether people would like it... >>.
This excerpt is from an interview given by New Story, and in this sense, it is very explanatory.
When I listened to "Different Ways," I didn't expect it to be the album of the year, but rather a pleasant disc to spend half an hour with, as "Untold Stories" was, and not a total mess that should be discarded after the first listen.
Now, I'm tired of making the usual major vs. non-major speeches, but the leitmotif seems to be the same as always: why have they stooped to play in a pandering manner, saccharine and winking at the worst chart pop?
The answer, though not explicit, can be deduced in that piece of the interview. Put simply: the first album was made for fun, for passion, not constructed solely for the purpose of getting on MTV and produced by a second-tier label. And I must candidly admit that I didn't mind it at the time, managing to compete even with much more renowned names in the genre. Thanks especially to catchy tunes, but not excessively frivolous and especially with a drum rough enough.
Now, with a predictable softening of the sound, they show us how to completely spoil everything by even making songs in Italian between the banal and the nonsensical. The wonderful drums that animated the first album do not appear at all; instead, synthesizers and acoustic guitars enter and take space among the tracks.
The only track that reminds us that we are not dealing with Take That reunited under a false name, but that this band played pop-punk, is the beautifully polished "Don't mind," not surprisingly one of the six tracks sung in English.
The album is divided into twelve tracks: the first six sung in Italian and the other six all in English. With the first ones, they completely scrape the bottom, with six miserable pop ballads out of six devoid of interest. Among those "with English lyrics," I mention the unprecedented "heavy" but self-serving guitars of "Golden street" which adds nothing. "Andrew coin" gets the rhythm right but gets a bit lost on the refrains. In the end, the English ones turn out to be slightly more "edgy," but the only episode worth saving on the album remains the already mentioned "Don't mind." This latter one makes me angry, reminding me of the excellent snappy and fast tracks like "Streetlights" and "Love and reclusion" that lit up the previous album, here replaced by an embarrassing and rampant banality of content and ideas, so much so that they have achieved the difficult plagiarism (and I'm serious because it's difficult to copy and do worse) of a rival and competing group with which they contend for heavy rotation.
The conclusion deserves a second quote: << Are there other bands you think might be similar to you in style and genre in Italy? >>
<<In my opinion, Vanilla Sky is a great example...>>
But please, Vanilla Sky compared to you is pure gold; their "Changes" is not worth half a note of your full-length. Instead, you have done a pathetic job by releasing this horrendous record.
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