Last Days Of April
If You Lose It (Bad Taste)
by Tim Den
What can I say, I friggin’ celebrate whenever Last Days Of April put out a new record. If you missed my drooling, raving mad reviews of their last two albums, let me sum them up: I absofuckinglutely LOVE this band. I don’t care if their songs hang on accessible chord progressions, or that the fragility in guitarist/vocalist Karl Larsson’s voice makes him as vulnerable as an open wound. I love every characteristic of this band because they are so honest, so comforting, so fulfilling… which makes for a much more rewarding listening experience than most music out there. “Originality” isn’t even an issue when the end result is this gratifying.
The album is full of signs of maturity. From the underplayed sorrow to the wire-y riffing, If You Lose It sounds like the product of a band learning new tricks, but integrating old ones into the whole as well. The power of the feelings in the music – long a trademark of Last Days Of April – is always retained, presented in new-and-improved chord changes and vocal lines. An exquisite album that both re-establishes everything I love about ’em and shows the steps they’re taking toward reinvention. Last Days Of April have never sounded better. And I’ve never loved them more.
(www.badtasterecords.se)