Released: 23/06/09

‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases;
It will never pass into nothingness’
John Keats

With music you have to treat your ears as your heart. Your eardrums are the beat and those little tiny hairs are your taste buds. When the ear drums the heart beats and a loving relationship between song and listener is established.

Wave If You’re Really There is the ambiguously perfect new album from the skipping popsters Wave Machines. While it wasn’t love at first sight, the more time I spent with the album, the more I fell infectiously in love. It’s playful voice work and interesting lyrics injected me with ‘punk spirit’ sending my subconscious to the dance floor.

While my dance was no tarantella, the slow drones of the sound waves kept me engaged. There is nothing strikingly annoying about this album, the high-pitched singing is executed most pleasantly and the juxtaposing deeper tone heard in Keep The Lights On poses for a perfect collaboration. If ears could smell, this album would be parachuting with pot pourri. A innovatively uplifting progression of tracks with some kind of depressive depth to their lyrics merging from the hip jingling I Go I Go I Go to the quiet whispers of the closing song Dead Houses.

In all its repetition, Wave If You’re Really There is everlasting. It’s harmless, fun and funky. “You say the stupidest things.” Nope, not me. This is a masterpiece, which will “never pass into nothingness.”

www.wavemachines.co.uk

Kayleigh Cassidy