The Amazing - Wait For A Light To Come
If you’re going to call your band The Amazing you’ve got to be pretty confident that you can follow that up. I mean, they haven’t called themselves The Average, The Mediocre or even, God forbid, The Feeling, but The Amazing. That sets expectation pretty high right from the kick off, doesn’t it?
Before we explore what they sound like, a bit of back story. The Amazing hail from Sweden and are comprised of a number of the members of Dungen and haul in a number of fellows from the Swedish indie scene and the result is quite different from the psyche-rock of Dungen.
What The Amazing sound like is summer. Not the British summer, mind. Not for them the pitter-patter of warm rain on cricket pitches, no this is the blissed out Mediterranean or Californian type of summer. The sort of summer spent sitting around camp fires on beaches strumming acoustic guitars wearing only long shorts and a stoner grin. You get my drift?
The opener is titled ‘Evil’ but I can only imagine this is some sort of witty juxtaposition because the tune is about as groovy, bright and breezy as you could possibly imagine. About as evil as a kitten with flowers in its hair. ‘And It Looks Like Today’ is so Mamas & Papas, folksy girls harmonising and everything, that it comes in wearing a floaty, flowerprint dress and makes you a camomile tea and this ‘Islands’ has a groove so laid back it’s almost catatonic!
‘Head Beaches’ briefly jolts one out of one’s reverie with a Band Of Horses-esque guitar line but quickly one is enveloped once more by the supremely relaxed nature of the vocal. ‘Defect’ gets a bit more of a funk on, lifting the pace of proceedings to a bit of a peak and is probably the most Dungen-like of all the tracks here, drifting as it does in to a proper space rock breakdown.
As by way of antidote to this brief flurry of activity, along comes the title track and album closer ‘Wait For A Light To Come’ to gently tuck the listener back in and drift off in to happy dreams.
So, amazing? Maybe not quite, but a good effort. Damn fine summers listening? Absolutely.
Top Tracks: 'Islands', 'Defect'.
Released June 14 on Subliminal Sounds