(2017) You'll Never Get to Heaven - Images
Review: Ontario ambient pop duo You’ll Never Get to Heaven first emerged in 2012, creating pleasantly hazy soundscapes threaded with singer Alice Hansen’s willowy vocals. Following a pair of independent releases in their native Canada, the group signed with American indie Yellow K Records, who released their third outing, Images, in early 2017. Co-conspirator Chuck Blazevic paints the canvas of Images with heavily treated synth and guitar textures, creating an appropriate backdrop for Hansen’s hushed deliveries on more pop-oriented tracks like “Shared Dreams” and the title cut. Elsewhere, the pair collaborate on more cerebral instrumental offerings like the celestial “Shadow Garden” and the misty closing trio of “Vapor Frames,” “Wind,” and “Rain Copy.”
Surprisingly, You’ll Never Get to Heaven are at their best on those more ambient vocal-less tracks, building strange windows whose formlessness somehow makes them even more enticing. While Hansen is a strong enough singer, the band’s more structured songs which feature her voice tend to resemble the kind of affable but generally unremarkable dream pop emerging from bedrooms worldwide.
Tracklist: 01 Shared Dreams.flac
02 White Light.flac
03 Still.flac
04 Images.flac
05 To Be Fair.flac
06 Shadow Garden.flac
07 Beyond the Clouds.flac
08 Exquisite Tension.flac
09 Vapor Frames.flac
10 Wind.flac
11 Rain Copy.flac
Summary: Country: Canada
Genre: dream-pop, indie-pop
Media Report: Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~ 509-887 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits |