![]() ![]() Hollywood Dreams is a gentle, romantic track. The penultimate chapter of the album consists of two really long and forgiving songs. The instrumentals are high pitched and lamenting. People are paying for parking and there’s homeless people around. Could be fitting at the start of a movie – it paints the background of just walking along going about your monotonous daily life. What’s Your Fire? has a riff that seems really appropriate to cry out across the city. I’m a real sucker for those, they make anything sound like poetry. " And 1000 bonus points from me because it has a sexy condenser-mic-style voiceover. It plays with the irony that "Even the decision not to have meaning has a meaning. A song "intentionally about nothing", says the band’s Josh Mehrtens. This is something different for Mild Orange and it works.ĭirectly contrary to that new sound, Oh Yeah comes in with a much more classic Mild Orange sound. The drums are epic, they play such a crucial role when the song later collapses into the climax. For me, this song really taps into something that the whole album might have been attempting. The Time o f Our Lives is a real 80's dream-pop-inspired track. Having said that, it did get me through the familiar melancholy of walking down Courtney Place. I couldn’t take anything from this song, it didn’t offer any insight or feeling. ![]() Everything from the pseudo-inspirational lyrics to the mid-song wind down just seems cliché. (which stands for Forget Everything and Relax), somewhat lets the album down. You stand, sway, militant drums marching you into tomorrow. Picture: it’s the final set of the evening, it's warm, lights are twinkling. Here is a breakdown of the key moments in the album.Ĭolourise introduces the album like the outro of a music festival. Mild Orange are back in New Zealand and back on the scene with their new album Looking For Space. ![]()
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