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It is said that campfire romance is something that anyone who has been able to get excited about for the rest of their life will immediately feel this feeling again with special songs. Listening to Braden Lam’s “Second Wind” for the first time, one might wonder why there has to be so much roar in the form of increasing additional background music at the end, when the song works best in its acoustic-lyrical form. The campfire crackles right at the beginning of the song, warmed up by the Canadian songwriter with an ingratiating voice and a good listening mood.
“Strange Paradise” (Symphonic) is the name of the EP in which Lam invites you into his world, in which the narrator gets just as much space (“White Dress”) as the man on the electric guitar with a rockier expression (“Death Threat”). And then at the end, Lam shows quite forcefully why his name and the campfire make a good combination. “Linen Sheets” is a nice song to close your eyes and ponder. Maybe a campfire or two.
The streamers like Esther
Everyone would like to be a rock star. Esther Graf is no exception. The Austrian is perhaps closer than many who dream of it in their younger years. “After the Bad Days” (RCA) is the name of the EP on which she mixes harmony-driven power pop (“Best Part”) with snotty guitar rock (“Into it”) and ballads in the spirit of the times (“Run back” together with Fourty). The streamer people have long taken Esther to their hearts. What is working well for a short time at the moment is still missing the enduring component. In other words: quickly heard, quickly liked, but quickly disappeared again in the tide of the current.
Heavenly Mikk
The sky as it is expressed in the songwriter who lives in Vienna Mick paints already has a facet that one can gain something from. With the lovely heaven She convinces as a storyteller who puts the unmistakable stamp on the folk-pop ballad with her very own voice. Just to listen. This also applies to the casually gliding “Heartbreak” – both heralds for the album “Shadow Selves”, which was announced in autumn. If you want to experience Mikk live, you have the opportunity to do so on May 1st at the Seaside Festival in Neusiedl.
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