The Lionheart Brothers
Colour contrast context
ChewinPine
Honest to god, I'm not the type of person who'll dismiss a band on the sole grounds of them sounding like "millions of acts before them", but when I listen to The Lionheart Brothers EP "Colour contrast context" I can't help but to feel like an old bitter man who spent his teenage years in the swinging sixties and wore nothing but flares and listened to nothing but psychedelic pop and now spends his time constantly repeating how much better everything was "back then" and how the bands of today sound like soggy carbon copies of the bands he used to like forty years ago (crazy, huh?). Of course, most of these old farts deserve to be slapped out of their weird denial, but in the case of the Lionheart Brothers there's some truth to be found in these clichéd arguments, because not only do The Lionheart Brothers wear their influences a bit too much on their sleeves but they also sound more like a travesty rather than a heartfelt homage (lyrics like "I've been crying / I've been flying" hardly work in the Brother's favour but only add to the Spinal Tap feel). Nevertheless, it should be said that The Lionheart Brothers have a rather nice feeling for melodies, harmonies and all that, but if you're really into this sort of music I'd recommend you to go and check out the new The Soundtrack Of Our Lives album instead of anything by this dull Norwegian duo.
- Simon Tagestam