Posted by Stasik in Russia at 17:04 on Sep 2 2006

Amazing!!!! ASU rulz!

Posted by Ed in Glasgow at 23:57 on Oct 8 2007

I like this album because the lyrics are just deep enough to mean something, but not so deep as to clash with the bubblegum pop sound.

The only song on the album that I find a bit arch is "Let's Rock Tonight" mainly because the words "Let's rock tonight" require an accompaniment which is more rocky and less electro pop lite-synth. At least, they do to my ears...

The lyrics in the songs are tight, and memorable, especially in the chorus.

For example:

Out of the atmosphere, into the stratosphere
Over the milky way, into the new frontier
You take me to a place I've never been before
You turn my everyday into the evermore.

All you do makes me feel alive
Like I'm flying through
Starry skies, multiplied over and
over again, a million times

You you you Yeah yeah yeah
This is turning into the best day that I've had

Love is a limousine, love is a trampoline
Love is a key to the club on the mezzanine
You make me feel in ways I've never felt before
I wanna be with you now and forevermore.

The images are interesting, and I've never seen them in pop songs before.

At the other end of the emotional spectrum is the song "There's gotta be something", which offers a reason to look for God, and imagines a person at the end of his rope, dissatisfied with the pleasures to be found under the sun.

“Catch your breath from chasing after
Happiness that dissapears
Tell yourself it's cool, and cover-up with laughter;
But underneath your skin
You're dying to give in.”

Also interesting are the lyrics in "Before you break my heart". Unusual similies and metaphors abound:
"I'm just like a jet without a runway
Stuck on the ground for so long"

"I'm strong but I feel so fragile
I'm the great wall of fine China"

Musically, the album is high quality, well produced and mixed and very "now", though I suspect I'll be listening to it in a couple of decades time too.