[Google translated from the Italian. Original here.]
“Here is another eagerly awaited return of this 2013. Called to reconfirm after the album “Dislocatia”, three years ago, had to prick up their ears more than a lover, the singer-songwriter from Queens Liam Singer keeps its promises and has renewed its center.
The musical project leverages the award-winning solutions and previous work does not undergo substantial changes, combined with haughty in his symphonies to pop neoclassical furnished rooms.
Singer turns conscientiously their gaze toward the cornerstones of baroque pop and ’60s (” Odessey And Oracle “,” Song Cycle “), both of 90 (” Deserter’s Songs “,” The Soft Bulletin “) and, as the these securities will certainly prove cumbersome only to name them, there is no denying that this album knows revisit history in a peculiar manner.
That of “Arc Iris” is a golden world, unreal, a nostalgic yearning for a lost classic issued by carole for winds and strings (“Endless Storm”), nocturnal piano sonatas (“The Dance Of Cupid And Psyche”) and dizzy stunts that border on the Gregorian chant melody (“The Astronaut”).
While, admittedly, surprising the audacity of this guy in testing the listener with particularly intricate plots, you wonder even more in front of the ease with which they can live together. Very few indeed are the moments when Singer gives the feeling of wanting to make the step up to the plate: you can blame here and there a little distinctive vocal style or performance that sometimes betrays the icy rigor of academic education, but everything is offset by a way to measure enviable.
The same values that makes added before the excesses excursions to the shores of the most amazing dream-pop (“Appear And Disappear”) and the free-jazz (the cacophony that open fiatistiche “Forever Blossoming”). But above all, the same one that allows you to leverage the technical expertise to ringed two little gems such as’ indie-pop inclinations of the cosmic “Dear Sister Gears / Turn In Gears” or the sparse piano and acoustic ballad “Nine Ten”, sung with calm detachment à-la Owen .
Despite the absence of decisive paw to bring the music of Singer Liam beyond a narrow niche of fans, “Arc Iris” works well as a statement about a talent now finally blossomed. An album full of vitality and class that will certainly raise future expectations in respect of its author.”