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Rating: Among Australian bands, we can list sounds and approaches with fairly defined contours of Rock or Pop tradition with slight electronic concessions. Where the elusive Folk Rock of the early 2000s in its Indie veins is more of a North American continental heritage that spans from the Midwest to the Canadian borders, we can be quite surprised to find the same completely acoustic and reverberated sounds in a band active in the bustling metropolis of Melbourne.
The Paper Kites have been active since 2009 and are famous for the single Bloom which sets simple, catchy and not memorable sound guidelines.
Nonetheless, it's worth highlighting an enviable pursuit in the quality of studio sounds and an enormous amount of clean and evocative songwriting that finds its peak in this "On The Train Ride Home".
It's a handful of narrative ballads that evoke stories of passengers lost on an evening train at times painful and heartrending. Stories of solitude and loves eroded by everyday life, entirely overlapping visually with the splendid album cover.
The words of this journey are never simple banal bittersweet watercolors like in other youthful indie folk situations. In fact, poetic nuances of this kind are appreciated:
"I want someone to grow with
Songs I can sing to and a family to cling to
But if I can't get the things I want
If I can't get the things I want
Just give me what I need
Just give me what I need"
The reflections of a commuter who sometimes appropriately questions what is truly the emotional and human load that a crowded train is carrying, trying to imagine where it might have started and, from station to station, sharing his pain through contact and mutual awareness of being just faceless passengers of a song that is then forgotten.
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