Album Review: Milky Chance Continues To “Blossom” In Second Album
It’s always amazing to see the many sides of an artist, especially when they reveal those sides on the same album. Milky Chance is releasing Blossom on March 17 and the album seems divided between the tracks made to blast on your radio and the acoustic versions made for your headphones. Either way each song is made to connect to the two sides of any soul: the one that likes to have fun and give a smiling face to the world, and the other one that likes to look out the window and wonder quietly to themselves about it.
Milky Chance – Cocoon (Official Video)
Cocoon
Every artist wants their albums to be a new discovery or refresher of themselves for fans, and Blossom is a step further into an already solid belief gained from their debut Sadnecessary; Milky Chance speaks to Millennials’ struggles between apathy and angst. By adding the acoustic versions songs like “Cold Blue Rain” and “Alive” you feel like you are re-meeting a songs you thought you knew just a few tracks ago. One minute we feel alive and invincible like in “Ego” and “Firebird” , while in the next we feel suffocated, exhausted, and ignored by the world as in “Cocoon’ and “Cold Blue Rain”. The great thing about these songs is that they have both a radio and acoustic version with each elaborating the talent of Milky Chance. The radio versions elevate the duo’s, particularly Philipp Dausch, ability to produce a track that is young, enlivening, and sonically present to the current sphere of music. Tracks such as, “Blossom”, “Doing Good”, and “Clouds sound like the ones we hear when we’re dancing at the club and synth-pop/alternative- rock blazes through speakers with the power of a rhythmic tiger prowling through our dreams. I have to elaborate the mastery of their instrumentals because they are a textbook definition of a catchy tune from the bouncing “Peripeteia” to the softer, more heartbreaking “Piano Song” and Stay”. Yet, it is though their acoustic versions that you, the listener, pinpoint their songwriting and vocal skills.
Doing Good
Adding acoustic versions of the same song is such an impactful, rhetorical move because you realize the amount of depth that goes into Milky Chance’s music, and wonder how and why you did not catch such details before. It is amazing to see how a beat can overpower a lyric, and how the song that you were just dancing to like “Cocoon” is actually a sad song about being tired with “everything”. It makes you think on how many times you’ve danced to a tragedy. In this sense, Blossom fascinates me and becomes more of a mindful record then initially perceived. Milky Chance outdoes itself by offering 20 songs that maintain their lyrical capacity to show the mutual reverence and irrelevance at which we approach life. Moreover, singer Clemens Rehbein gets an opportunity to show his range vocally and emotionally. He has a cooling voice that feels like it can stretch a note with ease and charm, but when it comes down to stripping a song to its strings and sentiments, he froths his voice with “vinegar” that sours with pain and vulnerability. Thus, showing that Milky Chance gives both spiritual truths and a reason to dance.To Buy Milky Chance’s Blossom On March 17 Click Here, and go see their Le Poisson Rouge NYC show on the same day.
Milky Chance – Blossom (Official Audio)
Blossom
