Secrets Are Sinister

Today's Music of the Day is Longwave's Secrets Are Sinister. I think that somewhere, from the bowels of the blogosphere, I got a mix Zip file of artists that were playing at last year's Coachella festival, and the opener from this album ("Sirens in the Deep Sea") was included. The playlist was something I evaluated on this blog, and listened to on occasion in past weeks. "Sirens in the Deep Sea" became something of a guilty pleasure for me, enough so that tracking down the album it came from was a minor quest for me.

Well, enough of the diary, this is a music blog. Secrets Are Sinister has been in regular rotation in my car's CD player as of late, meaning that I listen to one or two songs during my commute and grocery runs. The whole album is about what I would have expected, given my impression of "Sirens in the Deep Sea". It's very much a rock album, albeit something of a moody, melancholy series of anthems. This morning it hit me that this album seems like something The Cure would put out if maybe Robert Smith showed up at the studio one day and said 'hey guys we are The Cure and we don't to go 11 but maybe we could turn it up one notch at least and possibly two'. So, yes, this album is overly dramatic at times, but I still enjoy it, even if I don't always feel good about it. It's grand and noisy, somewhere far, far away from Mogwai and Low on a scale of subtlety, but this isn't a demerit, just an observation.

"Sirens" is a fine track, one that makes good use of its simple rock guitar lines. The title track is pretty solid, "Life is Wrong" and "Eyes Like Headlights" are very listenable as well. Overall, this is probably a fitting album for someone who was raised on classic rock and is now depressed often; Longwave isn't the band I will rave about to everyone I know, but I would be troubled if someone threw out my copy of Secrets are Sinister.

In Other News:
I'm not having the best of days today. I know this will come to pass, at least I hope so.