True Lovers – Blessed Are The Lovesick (Album – Future Lunch)
Genre/Influences: Metal, Post-Punk, Electro & Metal.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: True Lovers is an American formation, which has been introduced as ‘modern day vampires playing early 2000’s American Rock with the 1980’s Post-Punk attitude, wearing nothing but leather and sunglasses’.
Content: This debut album features 9 songs, which are mainly empowered by furious Metal-driven parts. The heavy and sometimes furious vocals perfectly match with the harshness of the music. But there also is a ‘softer’ side running through the album. Songs are moving from merciless, boosting passages into softer parts. And there’s even a few soft cuts accomplished with Electro arrangements.
+ + + : The harder side of True Lovers is sometimes reminding me of Limp Bizkit for its Nu-Metal approach. Guitar and vocals are finding a harmony in rage, which you’ll notice at “Phoenix Down” and “Bleeding Heart”.
– – – : The softer part of the album (cf. “Royalty”, “Night Sky”) is not exactly the most exciting one.
Conclusion: True Lovers is bringing different influences together, which makes it hard to define their style, but will maybe catch the attention of a diversified audience.
Best songs: “Phoenix Down”, “Bleeding Heart”.
Rate: 6½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/trueloverspunx
Label: www.futurelunch.com / www.facebook.com/futurelunch
About True Lovers
True Lovers is an American band that mixes metal, post-punk and electronic elements. Discogs lists “Blessed Are The Lovesick” as its only release: a CD album issued by the Finnish label Future Lunch on 28 May 2021, also sold as a download. The nine tracks are “My Own Worst Enemy”, “Bleeding Heart”, “Enforcer”, “Royalty”, “Phoenix Down”, “Rain City”, “Black Tiger”, “Night Sky” and “Heavy Tears”. No production credits are listed on Discogs and no Bandcamp page for the album was found.
“Blessed Are The Lovesick” is the band’s debut album and its only Side-Line review to date.
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