Leaves
Breath (Dreamworks)
by Tim Den
Leaves sound a helluva lot more British than Icelandic, a curious fact given that copying fellow coutrymen Sigur Rós would’ve been a lot more interesting than the pseudo-Coldplay at work here. Not that Breathe is a useless melodic exercise, tracks like “Catch” and “Silence” are peppered with enough Starsailor/The Verve/The London Suede to deserve an MTV clip, but the uncanny facelessness of the clichés often render impressions shallow and unaffected.
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