The Search – Extras (Album – Aenaos Records)
Genre/Influences: Rock-Pop, Indie.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Swedish formation The Search has released an impressive discography. For the new album core member Razmig Tekeyan was joined by three members, The Search becoming a ‘real’ band again.
Content: The influences haven’t really changed, the album being the perfect offspring between Rock and Pop music. It’s an accessible and pretty Indie-like sound, reminding me of artists like Paul Weller and Prefab Sprout. The songs are progressively built up and often ending in a true apotheosis.
+ + + : I’ve never been a huge lover of The Search but this work convinced me of the contrary. It’s a well-crafted piece of music. The songs are moving crescendo so the final part of nearly each song has an elevating effect. The guitar play injects a true soul to the music.
– – – : I can’t say there’re hist featured at the album but none of the songs totally deceived.
Conclusion: “Extras” is a work to experience a good feeling.
Best songs: “Just Passing Through”, “It’s a Void”, “A Night At The Beach”.
Rate: 7.
Artist: https://thesearchsweden.wordpress.com /
Label: www.aenaos-records.com
Aenaos Records released “Extras” on 25 February 2022 on CD and digitally. The twelve tracks are “Halt”, “Writing On The Wall”, “Dead Silent”, “Moving Target”, “Bunny”, “A Night At The Beach”, “Forever And Ever”, “Eyes To The Ground”, “Just Passing Through”, “Quills”, “It’s A Void” and “Does It Resonate?”.
The three musicians who joined Razmig Tekeyan are Erik Nyberg on bass, Stephen Burt on lead guitar and Johann Bernövall on drums, all from the band’s home town of Uppsala. The album was recorded during the pandemic. Tekeyan describes the record as a call to arms, and says the lyrics “tend to look for meaning in midlife relationship struggles and isolation”.
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About The Search
The Search is a Swedish indie rock project from Uppsala led by singer and guitarist Razmig Tekeyan, who has recorded under the name since the early 2000s. What began as a band became a solo project for a long stretch, and “Extras” is the first record made as a four-piece again.
Side-Line has followed the project through Aenaos Records. The album “Some Place Far Away” was reviewed in July 2020, and “Heart’s Racing” followed in December of the same year.
Aenaos Records is a Greek label whose roster Side-Line covers regularly, with reviews of Art Of Empathy, Art Noir and BlackieBlueBird among them. “Extras” is the third The Search album the label has issued.
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