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The Pete Lambrou-Ciaran Morahan duo appeared on this blog four years ago with their fantastically artsy album Stranded, Not Lost. I can safely say that their discography is one of the most consistently well-written music I know. And Sing With Abandon only proves this point.
The album starts like something Jónsi would do: heavy organ-like keys and high-pitched but very moody vocals on top of that. And just like him (and other artists of the higher music sensibility), the duo positions their moody ballads nest to ambient soundscapes that add to the album's magic. The piano keys and their beauty, the strings and their melancholic nature and finally the tear-jerking vocals blend into this dreamy art pop that generates sadness in the souls of everyone who tastes it. It's actually pretty surprising that this kind of music was written in London, not in Reykjavik or any other Icelandic magical town.
Also the fact that the album's main theme revolves around sea and ships, together with their dangerous and melancholic metaphorical capacity brings it thematically closer to the Far North. It has to be said that VLMV are so good at bringing everything that's breathtaking and tear-jerking from the concept of the sea and transform it into lyrics, like in The Navigator: "I came to map the sun and stars/ But I can't find them in the dark/ To navigate the ocean floor/ I can't hold my breath much more".
Sing With Abandon costs 12 EUR (10 GBP).
Check: The Navigator
Country: UK
Genre: neoclassical dreamy art pop
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