Out From The Darkness Album Review

“Let’s take the Road – down memory lane”, is a key line from the second song on the Glass Owls – Out From The Darkness album and it sums the album up perfectly.

The Glass Owls are brilliant, and remind me of a combination of Echo and the Bunnymen from the 80’s and the House of Love from the 90’s. The vocals by Tomas Nelson are so warm and rich, calm and strong, very Julian Cope, especially on Out From The Darkness (Google him you need to). If you need a more modern reference Arctic Monkeys would be fairly close, especially in the vocal department. Sorry I can’t help making references to other bands. Blur and Franz Ferdinand are other bands that spring to mind. Therefore in essence the Glass Owls are not totally original, but are a modern take on some historical classics.

Christopher Pearce’s Bunnymen style bass lines keep the pace of the album upbeat and powerful, Apathy is a great example of what I am talking about.

The lyrics are strong and the structures of the songs are fairly typical indie rock. No great surprises here, which will assist them in achieving some radio success if they pursue this avenue.

The guitar is very retro in sound effects and doesn’t overpower the album. Some great riffs and powerful sounds that compliments the vocals perfectly.

I recommend that you download the album from here: https://glassowls.bandcamp.com/

Buy it, buy it, buy it.

Have you bought it yet?