DARWIN DEEZ – Songs For Imaginative People
1. (800) HUMAN
2. You Can’t Be My Girl
3. Moonlit
4. No Love
5. Good to Lose
6. Alice
7. Redshift
8. Free (The Editorial Me)
9. All In the Wrist
10. Chelsea’s Hotel
Weird electronic sounds, strange e-guitars and an exaggerated voice. Simply too much for your ears. That is the best way to describe DARWIN DEEZ‘s new record Songs For Imaginative People-out on February the 11th. The bands’ self-titled debut record, which was released three years ago, was such an awesome and cheerful indie-folk-pop record – while listening to it you solely have to be happy. But unfortunately not much of it is left over for DARWIN DEEZ‘s second longplayer. Nothing on Songs For Imaginative People fits together. In almost every track are too much e-guitars which definitely don’t mesh with Darwin Smiths too high voice. The album is way too experimental and you can’t find any structures in the tracks. Songs For Imaginative People starts with Human, a track that features tons of bizarre electro sounds, annoying synthezisers and Darwin Smiths elevated voice. It seems like the band pushed too many buttons on their electronic devices at the same time whilst recording it. The following song, You Can’t Be My Girl, purports to be more structured, but regrettably just at it’s beginning. Later the song sounds like four children who can’t play any instrument would nevertheless play different ones at the same time. Moonlit starts with quiet good e-guitars, but as soon Smiths voice joins the song becomes pretty annoying. And the long rockish guitar solos don’t match to DARWIN DEEZ but rather to hard rock bands as LED ZEPPELIN. It goes over to No Love, an almost spoken song with queer aligned notes. Good To Loose and Alice are more bearable then the previous pieces. Not that experimental, but still some comical electro tunes. Songs For Imaginative People‘s next one is Redshift. At the beginning it sounds like a nice ballad, since there aren’t too many insruments and it follows a scheme. The song reminds a little bit of the old DARWIN DEEZ. Just as the verses of the album’s first single, Free (The Editorial Me), inspired by the German philosopher Nietzsche. But unfortunately there is just a tiny bit of the earlier DARWIN DEEZ inside. And only in these two tracks…
I do understand that bands don’t want to record a second album that is too similar to its predecessor. But they shouldn’t loose their own and unique sound. Sadly, this is exactly what happened to DARWIN DEEZ. I really like the bands’ debut record and hopefully their next one will lead them back to their former sound.
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