Release Date: november 28th
2008!
If we didn’t know better, we would have sworn that
Sweden has to be the motherland of
Synth Pop after listening to this album,. “A Soft Exchange” marks the return of
an icon of this musical genre with a fulminant new album – and there is hardly a
band these days that is living this sound the way Elegant Machinery do. The two
advance singles “Feel The Silence” and “Move” both catapulted the likeable
Swedes into the single charts in their home country and filled us with big
expectations. And the band delivers just as brilliantly on album-length. Breezy
melodies, polished arrangements and solid beats… Elegant Machinery prove once
again that they are masters at writing catchy, electronic tunes, all executed
sensitively by Robert Enforsen’s soothing voice. It doesn’t matter whether you
take elating rhythmic tunes such as “Bleeding Words” or “With Grace” or
minimalist ballads such as “Hold On” – Elegant Machinery have succeeded at the
feat of writing an album on which each song is a potential single. “A Soft Exchange” is club-compatible
feel-good-music for sophisticated people. The most successful Swedish Synth Pop
band is returning with a bang!
Tracks:
1. With Grace
2. Move
3. Do You Know
4. A Soft Exchange
5. Feel the Silence
6. Path of Angle (Instrumental)
7. Bleeding Words
8. Hold On
9. Firm
10. Is This the Way
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