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Trollheart · 09-14-2017, 02:49 PM

Album title: Youth is Only Fun in Retrospect
Artist: Sundara Karma
Genre: Indie Rock
Nationality: English
Release date: January 6
Position in Discography: Debut
Familiar with this artist? No
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? Mildly
Check out more from this artist? Yes, I'll be watching them.
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Probably.

Sounds decent enough when it kicks off. Not going to be rushing out and buying all their ... oh. This is their only album. Well. Good enough really. Parts of “Explore” definitely echo the main melody of Pulp's “Common People” but that doesn't make it a copy or anything. The brass is nice too. Probaby synthesised, but there you go. There's a lot of Springsteen/Gaslight Anthem about “Olympia”, and there's certainly a lot of energy and enthusiasm in these songs. Kind of liking it more as the album progresses. Well these guys aren't exactly reinventing the wheel or pushing any boundaries, but they seem happy to rest in the niche they've carved for themselves. It makes for a very good album anyway, and I dig it.

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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,970	Album title: Youth is Only Fun in Retrospect Artist: Sundara Karma Genre: Indie Rock Nationality: English Release date: January 6 Position in Discography: Debut Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? Mildly Check out more from this artist? Yes, I'll be watching them. Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Probably. Sounds decent enough when it kicks off. Not going to be rushing out and buying all their ... oh. This is their only album. Well. Good enough really. Parts of “Explore” definitely echo the main melody of Pulp's “Common People” but that doesn't make it a copy or anything. The brass is nice too. Probaby synthesised, but there you go. There's a lot of Springsteen/Gaslight Anthem about “Olympia”, and there's certainly a lot of energy and enthusiasm in these songs. Kind of liking it more as the album progresses. Well these guys aren't exactly reinventing the wheel or pushing any boundaries, but they seem happy to rest in the niche they've carved for themselves. It makes for a very good album anyway, and I dig it. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018