Melody Fields is a new
Gothenburg, Sweden area based band. The band is 5 main members but there are
also 5 guests adding to the sonice stew. The promo bio describes the band as
shoegazing pop meets Swedish counterculture psychedelia. I have to say I don’t
like this description at all. Anyway, the album is released in 3 colours and
also on CD (with a bonus track, a simple reprise of the opening track). Morning Sun is a brilliant track (see video below) and reminds
me Assemblehead of sunburst sound a bit. It has a bit of mystic eastern sound
with some cool percussion sounds mixed into the song. The harmony vocals are
excellent and this track has a long saxophone solo as the main solo. The track
ends as a drone after a bit more than 4 mins. Liberty is a bit more dreamy and
happy. Octopus Syng has written some tracks a lot like this one. Run has a more
60s fuzzed out guitar and harder riff to start off and then the dreamy vocal
and melodic elements similar to the other songs reappear for the vocal
sections. This is a very beautiful track. Rain Man starts with some
reverberating guitars before the band and gets into its groove. Some very nice
psychedelic effected guitars on this. Fire, this is the best track on the album
and I just get transported away. My wife also loves this one. Amazing song. Trädränsen
(the Tree Line) is the longest track and most experimental on the record and it
starts slowly and mysterious in nature but a sense of beauty and wonder also
comes across as it slowly takes form into a great psychedelic rock track.
Morning Sun (revisited) ends this great record and one that I have heard the
most the last few months.
This is music that just makes you feel happy and is great on a spring
or summer day. The band uses a lot of the same type of vocals and melodies on
many of the tracks so sometimes they sound a bit a like. Crank it up and smile!
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