Album Review: Picture This! Sings To MDRN LV

The best selling Irish act, Picture This, has released a new album: both literally and stylistically. Their sound has become more amped in electro fusions, hymnal hooks, and choruses that make you want to sing with the world for Love to return. For them, as long their message of love stays steady, their music is limitless in growth. 

Compared to other artists, like The 1975, that have used their work to analyze what love means in the digital age, Picture This prefer to stick to what love means at all. Yet, both ideas are not contrasting. At the end of the day, before you figure out any dating app, you have to figure out how you are a person and partner. Thus, tracks like, “One Drink,” “Life of The Party,” and “Magnet” have the band playing to love as if it is this godly energy that gives you the best night of your life, but songs such as, “Everything or Nothing,” “Broken,” and “If You Wanna Be Loved,” show that love does work under ultimatums. 

You hear about “relationships being a compromise,” but the truth is that you do not compromise with your partner as much as yourself. From “Nevada” to “More Than Just Tonight,” you hear lead singer Ryan Hennessy crooning to where he is willing to go to gain and keep love and where he is not, which is both good and heartbreaking. His voice blazes the pain and passion of wishing we could do everything for love, but knowing we do have limits and learning that we should. He, literally, lights up a note like a cigar, and then pours his emotions over it like the heavenly drink he calls his last name. All this he does with a soundscape that ups Picture This! previous, more acoustic sound into one that steps closer to the heart of pop. 

Sonically, this album feels more danceable. If before Picture This asked you to sway and hold hands with your love, now, they now ask you to take it for a night around town. The album brims with a pop energy that strips their sound of its usual, quieter nature, but that is perfectly fine. The perks of growing in sound is that you can’t be compartmentalized. For More Information on Picture This’ MDRN LV Click Here.