Album Review: Sea Girls Will “Open Your Head” And Heart
Sea Girls have an innate ability to tap into two core feelings of youthfulness: invincibility and nostalgia. Part of feeling young, is feeling tomorrow will great and that something is missing which tomorrow will probably bring. For however, distillusioned younger generations may claim and have the right to be, the joy of being young is that hope never dies because you are too innovative to not find another path. In their new album, Open Your Head, out August 14, the British band, literally, send that message to fans: open your head.
If my review of Elis Noa taught you anything, it is that human beings are built by their desires. Love is the peace you find with your desires, and fear is the confinement you find in them. In some ways, Open Your Head shares the same message; life is a bunch of choices you make out of want, and, if you don’t open your head, you might miss what you need. Thus, tracks like, “All I Want To Hear You Say,” and “Moving On” play to the feelings of “love it or leave it” that build between people and their lives and relationships. While the message may not be new, Sea Girls fill a space in pop-rock bands that I miss.
Sea Girls – All I Want To Hear You Say (Official Video)
From The Killers to The Strokes, there are not many new bands, in the 2020s, that match these 00s band ability to blend pop-rock until it became separate genre. They knew how to make a song rock enough that it felt swept and rebelled by its sound, but pop enough for you to sing and clap along to the radio. Sea Girls give that vibe to me; the early 2000s meet the 2020s in songs such as, “Ready For More” and “Girls Lie To Me.” Their lyrics totally embrace a key formula to pop, which is “woe is me.” Why doesn’t she love me? Why can’t we be together or life get to that better place?
Sea Girls – Do You Really Wanna Know? (Official Video)
You may laugh but pop’s ability to make feelings like, self-pity and self-hate, feel like gumdrops and rainbows oddly matches rock’s ability to make them feel like gasoline meets fire. The whole of point of music is to transform a feeling into something you can hold. You see it in a song’s words, hear it in its sounds, and crystallize it to the memories you make with each song. Open Your Head feels memorable. I can envision fans singing along with Henry Camamile as interchanges his voice from roars to whimpers over how frustrating love can be when your a sensitive guy trying to woo a woman. Vocally, he is 100% a leading man, and presents songs like the romantic films we all envision them to be in our heads; making Open Your Head feel like a more than apt album title. For More Information Click Here.
