Album Review: Duologue – Never Get Lost
Never Get Lost
Released 8th September 2014
Having spent a great deal of time with Duologue’s debut album Song & Dance and totally falling in love with it I was really eager to get to grips with Never Get Lost. At first listen I wasn’t sure about it, it didn’t feel like it had anything that was going to really grab me. After a while though things have started to change and I’m still finding myself drawn ever more into their mysterious musical world.
Forests has already been unleashed into the Online stratosphere and perhaps because I’m so familiar with it (it made my Summer playlist) it has become a firm favourite on the album. The vocal melody twists and weaves with lyrics that are easily related to. The electronica boasts a deep hearty throb against a musical twinkle that creates a something of a dark yet magical wonderland. Duolouge manage to create spaces and places in time with their music, a quality I really admire and enjoy and this track is a perfect example of this.
Opener, Memex, is a slow burner and musically sparse with lyrics that aren’t really decipherable, yet I adore the high range of vocal that’s reached and the overall energy of the track. It’s a brave choice for an album opener as it doesn’t really give much away. It isn’t really as memorable as you might perhaps want your opening track to be either. It’s the outtro that I find most interesting; it’s almost as if it doesn’t belong to the track at all and it totally changes direction and texture. Later on in the album and in complete contrast you have All Night Shows. Here you’ll find a gloriously chilled out bliss that drops into a harsh industrial break, eventually combining the two later in the track.
The first single from Never Get Lost was Drag & Drop, a single that feels like it has its roots in more conventional song writing; verse chorus, verse. It also manages moments of interest without really ever having the need for any kind of big drop. I feel like this track is more reminiscent of Song & Dance than anything else on the album. It’s followed by the beautiful Departures which again feels like it has more of a focus on the lyrics than perhaps the music. It’s another slow burner but has much more to say musically and lyrically than Memex.
Overall the album does deliver but there are parts where I’m not getting quite what I want and I find myself going back to the first album. That’s both good and bad for a whole host of reasons I’m not going to delve into here. I think when it comes to moving on to the next album to review I’m going to find it hard to turn this off, and that there says it all really.
Listen to Never Get Lost (album) here:
Watch the video for Memex here:
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