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Artist: Daybehavior (@)
Title: Follow That Car!
Format: CD
Label: Graplur
Rated: *****
Anticipated in 2010 by the digital single "It's A Game" and the last year by the "Silent Dawn" digital single, on September 2012 Daybehavior released their newest and third album "Follow That Car!". Tommy, Paulinda and Carl since their reunion worked hard to make strong synthpop tunes to be able to pack a great album and to be sure to have everything in control, they decided to release it for their label Graplur. The album opens with "Come To Bed With Me", an instant hit that was downloadable for free on their Soundcloud page months ago. "City Lights", which was also on Soundcloud, comes after and confirms the atmosphere that the band chose for the album: an upbeat synthpop focused on catchy melodies and on seducing atmospheres created by Paulinda's vocals. "So Shut Your Eyes" is another strong melodic mid tempo which prepare the audience for the intriguing atmospheres of "Silent Dawn" where Paulinda sings on the refrain "Come into my world, make me be that girl, a fool, will always dream of love". This one could be a radio heavy rotation over the world, hands down. "This Blue Film" it's a dark tune which, thanks to Paulinda, recalls me a synthpop version of Portishead. Also "A Train To Moscow" and "GodSpeed" are someway moving slowly between pop and dark atmospheres playing also with cinematic orchestral arrangements. With "It's A Game" the upbeat rhythms are back, but we already knew this song because of the single. On "For A Thousand Years" we have a passionate romantic duet with Paulinda and Julian Brandt. Julian released an album for Graplur on 2009 and now he's about to come back with the debut EP of Julian And Marina titled "Absence". "No More Minutes" it's a bit dancey and upbeat and it would work great also remixed. With "Where The Trees Never Sleep" melancholy and a bit of darkness are back and after that we have a surprise: a seven minutes long track "The Second Citizen" which is a particular kind of synthpop because it has a substrate of bouncing drum bass beats with alternation of synth noises, orchestrations and pop vocal atmospheres. "Follow That Car!" is a good album, the band did a great production work but I question myself how could have it been if they would have risked to experiment a bit more with sounds'¦


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