Certainly not Ol’ Blue Eyes
Five years after their last album,
Trashcan Sinatras sneak back onto the indie-rock scene with In The
Music, choosing—as we've come to expect from the Scottish
group—an understated entrance rather than an attempt to shake up
the music world. The result is an overall pleasant, dreamy album,
guilty of the occasional cliché such as, "She fills the
room with light" from "Easy On The Eye" and the
remarkably similar "I just don't know what I would do without
your light" six songs later, on "Oranges and Apples."
Even the title track, which succeeds briefly with its glorification
of the powers of music ("In the music we rise above, we get
lost, we get powerful"), gets bogged down with lines about
finding purpose in a lovers' eyes or embrace. In the end, the best of
the album is right where its title would suggest: The relaxed
folk-pop beats and tight melodies provide character and are a
testament to the 20-plus years the Sinatras have been playing
together.
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