Much Better, Thank You - Glorious Days (12inch Vinyl-Album)
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Even though the album's songs were created over five years, they form a narrative unity and simultaneously reveal the band's broad spectrum to the listener. In addition to the classic instrumentation of the two-guitar band, lap steel, harmonica, violin, bass clarinet, trumpet, and synthesizer give each song its own unique character. Signature-sound.
The album starts straight away with the title track and the first single Glorious Days, whose rock riff literally forces you to move your body. Once the last distorted chord has faded away, the mood changes to the gently and multi-layered Circle of LightStarting with guitar and vocals, the band's sound builds up piece by piece and is enriched with bass clarinet, harmonium, and violin—it's so beautiful it makes you cry.
So it continues through a rollercoaster of emotions. There is the profound, magically enriched by Fredrik Kinbom with the lap steel of The Picture, a Dylanesque The Wind, the dreampop from In Dreams We Are Sleeping and Yes Yes, a piece of indie rock with lavishly exuberant melodies.
The conclusion is formed Waiting, a reminiscence of a terrible accident and the waiting and praying and praying and waiting in the hospital. The blown away Trumpet comes from Uwe Nolopp.
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An album full of power and beauty and a sometimes mischievous smile.
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01 Glorious Days
02 Circle of Light
03 Forced to Sleep
04 Part of the Picture
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05 In Dreams We Are Sleeping
06 Maze of Glass
07 The Wind
08 Yes Yes
09 Waiting