What a cracking album this is. Finland quartet, Ambulance, have nailed it. I was originally tipped off by our great friends at Add To Want List. Digging deeper, I found out that Erik Lintunen is Guitarist and Keyboard player. Erik is responsible one of my favourite albums ever, 2022's Maine Coon by Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS?
Factory Second is incredibly inventive, all over the place at times, the influences are many. But the album is so damn melodic at times. Woods may be the best thing that you will hear all year and treads heavily into the likes of Brit Pop.
Bad News is another great example of how a song doesn't seem what it appears to be. Verses that are all New York Street and a chorus that just blasts off in a wonderfully shouty way. Yet Vile sounds more Post Punk or Krautrock instrumentally, but still manages to find a great chorus.
The Perfect Cure is much darker, very Goth and built around an hypnotic Guitar riff and pounding Bass. Antigravity is pure early 80s Post Punk. Yet both Summer and Rubber Kitten show how accessible the band can be, great Guitar Pop.
Factory Second is a great opener, anthemic, but the closer Babylonia is very different. Approaching 11 minutes, it is an extraordinary piece of genre mixing work. Factory Second is an incredible listen. Album Of The Year material, quite possibly!
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