Everybody’s Lost And All I Want Is To Leave. Victories at Sea

There's one fast way to describe Everybody’s Lost And All I Want Is To Leave: a mysterious Snow Patrol. In a way that could be enough to describe the album but not when there's some more space, like I grant myself on my own blog.

What would get lost is that Victories at Sea incorporates its pop songs with the soundscapes that a band like The Sweet Release of Death unleashed on unsuspected listeners like me last year. The result is a dreamy kind of music that gets a kick in the behind of a kind that no one dared give Coldplay since 2003. There already is a 'The Scientist', yet this is the field where Victories at Sea botanises to find its way forward musically.

The result is a fine mix of music that carries the album. The album starts with a piano riff, followed by a firm drum for such a dreamy beginning. The soft vocals are laid out over the music, like a blanket to keep us all warm and comfy. Whether at the dreamy start or the exploding parts. The voice is the modest capstone of Everybody's Lost ....

Promo photo: René Oonk

For those listening more carefully, it is easy to spot familiar hints in the music. Take the piano in first single 'Quiet House'. Classic U2 in 'New Year's Day'. That the band has toured with Editors and The Boxer Rebellion is perfectly understandable. Everybody's Lost ... holds the same sort of electronics and a piano like Editors has, without blowing itself up beyond recognisable proportions. The guitar shredding parts are always mixed to the back to midground. Live it could well be at earsplitting level though. The dreamy qualities of The Boxer Rebellion do not need further explaining, except that I like Victories at Sea better, I find. Its songs stand out more, have more character.

The most surprising thing about this album to me is that it is released through a modest Dutch label instead of a major, global label, pushing this album worldwide to get the band into stadiums and arena's as fast as possible. At least 50% of the music lends itself to huge explorations of what the limit of the song can or should be. Instead this country is able to the band in May in Cinetol in Amsterdam. Perhaps a last chance before greatness?

Wo.

You can order the album here:

https://www.gentlemenrecordings.com/nl/product/victories-at-sea-everybodys-lost-and-all-i-want-is-to-leave/


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