Artist: Du Blonde
Title: Welcome Back to Milk
Genre: Alternative
Release Date: 15th May 2015
Label: Mute/Goodtogo
Album Review
One day changed the whole life. After she collapsed under the pressure of her musical activity Beth Jeans Houghtons had to reconsider her life goals. In the end she faced her fear of the office job and gave in. Together with this she gave a thought to all the things which made her unhappy and angry and started a new musical project along with recording another album right away. ‘Welcome Back to Milk’ could be a musical definition of how boring the office-people can be.
The opening track ‘Black Flag’ which was also released as appetizer to the album, was a great trick. This promising song is the best one on the album. Powerful, strong and dirty this song could make Taylor Momsen nervous. However right after the first track the boring part starts and goes up to the very end of the record. Probably it was just disappointment which made the whole album sound worse as it is. But it might be almost criminal to get such a great start immediately down. All in all ‘Welcome Back to Milk’ doesn't sound that bad. Houghtons has nice vocals and she's trying hard to get the best of it. The arrangements are quite simple, which never equalled “bad”. Simple set of the instruments makes DU BLONDE's sound clear and ringing. However sometimes it seems that some songs have similar guitar or/ and drum patterns. In the end DU BLONDE sounds like Lana Del Rey would try to sing for a poor version of THE PRETTY RECKLESS.
Tracklist
01. Black Flag
02. Chips To Go
03. Raw Honey
04. After The Show
05. If You're Legal
06. Hunter
07. Hard to Please
08. Young Entertainment
09. Mr Hyde
10. Four In The Morning
11. My Mind Is On My Mind
12. Isn't It Wild
Website
http://www.dublonde.co.uk/ / https://www.facebook.com/DuBlondeOfficial
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 4
Sound: 6
Total: 5 / 10
