Music Review: Lights - "The Listening"
I was looking for an album by some other band and somehow ended up with a copy of "The Listening" by the Canadian artists known as Lights. A listening is what I gave "The Listening," and what a waste of time that was. If you want to waste some of your own time you can read my lazy song by song review below.
"Saviour": At first I could not tell if the female singer had a quirky voice or if she was using auto tune, the robotic warble gave it away pretty quickly. Take away the cheat equipment and this might have been a decent pop song in the vein of the late 90s era. She warbled away real respect pretty quickly though, not using the tool to create some sort of cool effect other than potentially hiding her inability to be in tune. She's got an uphill fight with this critic now.
"Drive My Soul": "Who will drive my soul?" This song's lyrics go a creepy extra step beyond co-dependency. Not good.
"River": Monotonous. Lame.
"The Listening": Singing is not her strong suit, perhaps this girl could make a career out of doing cartoon voice over!
"Ice": Weak, watered disco electro-pop beat with light 8 bit video game influences perhaps. And of course this girl's terrible attempt at singing along with it. It's a mess.
"Pretend": Less abrasive on the ears, merely due to it being a really slow ballad.
"The Last Thing On Your Mind": The music in the background is never consistent and so it lives and dies on her voice . It dies, dies, dies, and dies some more.
"Second Go": Welcome to the B-side of the 80s!
"February Air": When she tries to raise her voice up into higher notes she seems to literally lose her voice and run out of breath, it is not a cute creative decision, feels more like a flaw, hard to listen to, like an elderly person gasping to breathe. When the song first started I thought I had made a mistake and was listening to one of the tracks I had already played.
"Face Up": In a pile of generic pop "give me your money and I'll make s pseudo-inspirational message track" songs, this one actually does stand out: as bad.
"Lions!": More one tone nonsense.
"Quiet": Really bad "little girl making rhymes" music. If she were eleven I would consider this album in a different "light."
"Pretend (reprise)": I'm not even going to bother listening to this.
"Saviour": At first I could not tell if the female singer had a quirky voice or if she was using auto tune, the robotic warble gave it away pretty quickly. Take away the cheat equipment and this might have been a decent pop song in the vein of the late 90s era. She warbled away real respect pretty quickly though, not using the tool to create some sort of cool effect other than potentially hiding her inability to be in tune. She's got an uphill fight with this critic now.
"Drive My Soul": "Who will drive my soul?" This song's lyrics go a creepy extra step beyond co-dependency. Not good.
"River": Monotonous. Lame.
"The Listening": Singing is not her strong suit, perhaps this girl could make a career out of doing cartoon voice over!
"Ice": Weak, watered disco electro-pop beat with light 8 bit video game influences perhaps. And of course this girl's terrible attempt at singing along with it. It's a mess.
"Pretend": Less abrasive on the ears, merely due to it being a really slow ballad.
"The Last Thing On Your Mind": The music in the background is never consistent and so it lives and dies on her voice . It dies, dies, dies, and dies some more.
"Second Go": Welcome to the B-side of the 80s!
"February Air": When she tries to raise her voice up into higher notes she seems to literally lose her voice and run out of breath, it is not a cute creative decision, feels more like a flaw, hard to listen to, like an elderly person gasping to breathe. When the song first started I thought I had made a mistake and was listening to one of the tracks I had already played.
"Face Up": In a pile of generic pop "give me your money and I'll make s pseudo-inspirational message track" songs, this one actually does stand out: as bad.
"Lions!": More one tone nonsense.
"Quiet": Really bad "little girl making rhymes" music. If she were eleven I would consider this album in a different "light."
"Pretend (reprise)": I'm not even going to bother listening to this.
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