There is something quite special about the cover of Glazyhaze\u2019s second album Sonic<\/i>. For one, just by its plainness that is depicted so elegantly, the cover makes you pay attention to it, and by association, to this unknown Venetian (yes, the city in Italy) outfit. More significantly, it makes a profound statement in its simplicity: a lonely lit match still can be powerful. This cover is symbolic of the spirit of the album behind it; Sonic<\/i> has a lot, manifested gracefully in its quick 31-minute duration.<\/p>\n
While the album has a shoegaze\/dream pop vocabulary, it also has the raw authenticity of nineties college rock. A true representation of this is the opening number \u201cWhat A Feeling,\u201d which carries a lot of power within its two minutes. With its raging colossal guitars, this firecracker of a track is like a strong espresso or a bucket of ice that would wake anyone up. Although there is a shoegaze aspect to this cut, you won\u2019t lose yourself in its world like you would typically do with this genre. \u201cSlap,\u201d another explosive song, has big and blustery guitars. Front woman Irene Moretuzzo\u2019s hauntingly plaintive singing here in her usual disaffected style, is sweet as honey, but with the sting of a bee. <\/p>\n
What\u2019s disappointing is that most of Sonic<\/i> does not consist of dynamites like these. Without the consuming guitars and the beauty of mystery, all that\u2019s left is frail sweetness, that sounds a lot like some of the wishy-washy alternative music that came out of the nineties. The worst of this is embodied by the listener-favorite \u201cNirvana,\u201d whose type of tender sugariness sounds as bland now as it did in the nineties.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
But it is Sonic\u2019s<\/i> spirit that keeps it engaging. Glazyhaze don\u2019t settle into the comfort of creating traditional song structures. Choruses are all but non-existent. Songs are short but keep changing. There\u2019s a spontaneous \u201clet\u2019s make music \u2019cause we love it\u201d energy, which is so pure. And this sentiment goes a long way in winning appreciation for this album, which in general, is not going to sweep you off your feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":35286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[11079],"rating":[5614],"class_list":["post-47173","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-glazyhaze","rating-rating-c-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/47173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/47173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47173"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=47173"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=47173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}