Starting in the 80's as a Depeche Mode clone, they finally have strayed away from that cookie cutter and made a sound of their own. After one listen, you can easily be singing along to the predictable, but fun lyrics of love, loss, and more on love. It's almost all synth based, so if you're a fan of guitar-pop, the occasional chords and rhythm guitar, your tastes will not be satisfied by the grooving of drum machines and sequenced bass lines. But, those of us whose cd players still get rotation of Flock of Seagulls long after the radio stations stopped, this album will be for you. Listening to this album, it's easy to see why people will move their whole setup down to New Orleans or some huge estate to make an album.
Ambience plays a big part in the final sound of the music.
Though it's not making a gigantic leap in style, the feeling in Lycia's music has changed. Lush, sustained guitars, the trademark of Lycia's music, layer over distant sounding drums and music box keys. Vocals emerge as male whispers and female melodic chants mixing in with the very guitar based music. A Rumors have it that Radiohead is going to save the music world from becoming one big melting pot of the same song performed by different artists over and over again. So far they have.